Pseudohermitian invariants and classification of CR mappings in generalized ellipsoids (Q763980)

Let \(\Omega\) be an open domain in \({\mathbb C}^{n+1}\), with boundary \(M=\partial \Omega\) a smooth real hypersurface in \({\mathbb C}^{n+1}\). Every biholomorphic mapping of \(\Omega\) which extends up to the boundary induces a CR mapping on \(M\). It is therefore a natural question to inverstigate CR mappings \(f: N\to N'\), where \(N\) and \(N'\) are open subsets in a CR hypersurface. In this paper the authors define a new invariant of the CR structure of \(M\), namely the Chern-invariant cone bundle \({\mathcal H}\) inside the holomorphic tangent bundle \(T^{1,0}M\). For every point \(p\in M\), the cone \({\mathcal H}_p\subset T_p^{1,0}M\) is defined in terms of the Chern tensor at \(p\) and every CR mapping \(f: N\to N'\) satisfies \(f_*({\mathcal H}_p)={\mathcal H}_{f(p)}\). When \(M\) has dimension \(2n+1\geq 5\), the Chern tensor has a non-trivial structure and \({\mathcal H}\) can provide information on how a CR mapping transforms the holomorphic tangent space. The authors test their method to obtain a classification of all local CR maps on generalized ellipsoids \[ {\mathcal E}=\Big\{ Z\in{\mathbb C}^{n+1}: |z_1|^{2m_1}+\dots+|z_{s }|^{2m_s }+|z_{n+1}|^2=1\Big\}, \] where \((z_1,z_2,\dots z_s)\in {\mathbb C}^{n_1}\times \dots\times{\mathbb C}^{n_s}={\mathbb C}^{n }\) are groups of variables and the numbers \(m_j, n_j\) are integers satisfying the conditions \(m_j,~n_j>1\) for \(1\leq j\leq s-1\) and \(n_s\geq 0\). They prove that local CR mappings of \(\partial E\) extend to global biholomorphisms of \(E\) and that every biholomorphism can be written as the composition of four mappings of a fixed type. For the ellipsoids \(E\), they recover results by \textit{T. Sunada} [Math. Ann. 235, 111--128 (1978; Zbl 0357.32001)] and \textit{G. Dini} and \textit{A. Selvaggi Primicerio} [J. Geom. Anal. 7, 575--584 (1997; Zbl 0943.32006)] obtained by completely different methods.