Rigidity of CR maps between Shilov boundaries of bounded symmetric domains (Q368618)

Recalling the standard representation of a bounded symmetric domain of Cartan type I, \[ D_{p,q}=\big\{z\in{\mathbb C}^{p\times q}:I_q-\bar{z}^Tz{\text{\;is\;positive\;definite}}\big\}, \] its Shilov boundary is the set \(S_{p,q}=\big\{z:I_q-\bar{z}^Tz=0_q\big\}\), a CR submanifold of \({\mathbb C}^{p\times q}\). This paper considers the case \(1<q<p\), so \(S_{p,q}\) is not totally real. Using Cartan's method of moving frames, the authors show that a smooth CR embedding \(f\) from a connected open subset of \(S_{p,q}\) into \(S_{p^\prime,q^\prime}\) with \(p^\prime-q^\prime<2(p-q)\) must be the restriction of a linear embedding, after composing with automorphisms of the domains.