On the Chern-Moser-Weyl tensor of real hypersurfaces

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/82598259MaRDI QIDQ1996206zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Reiter, Duong Ngoc Son

Publication date 3 March 2021

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12599, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1586851221

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Moser-Weyl tensorpseudohermitian invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real submanifolds in complex manifolds (32V40) Local submanifolds (53B25)

Abstract: We derive an explicit formula for the well-known Chern-Moser-Weyl tensor for nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in complex space in terms of their defining functions. The formula is considerably simplified when applying to "pluriharmonic perturbations" of the sphere or to a Fefferman approximate solution to the complex Monge-Amp`ere equation. As an application, we show that the CR invariant one-form $X_{alpha}$ constructed recently by Case and Gover is nontrivial on each real ellipsoid of revolution in $mathbb{C}^3$, unless it is equivalent to the sphere. This resolves affirmatively a question posed by these two authors in 2017 regarding the (non-) local CR invariance of the $mathcal{I}^{\prime }$-pseudohermitian invariant in dimension five and provides a counterexample to a recent conjecture by Hirachi.

Review text

The authors give an explicit concise formula for the Chern-Moser-Weyl tensor of nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in terms of the defining function. As an application, they also show that the CR-invariant one-form \(X_\alpha\) is non-trivial on real ellipsoids of revolution \(E(a)\) in \(\mathbb C^3\) defined by \(\rho (z_1,z_2,w)= |z_1|^2+ |z_2|^2+ |w|^2 + \Re (aw^2)-1=0, \ a\in \mathbb R\) unless \(a=0.\) In this way they resolve affirmatively a question posed by Case and Gover and provide a counterexample to a recent conjecture by Hirachi. In the last section of the paper they provide a family of locally equivalent nonspherical CR manifolds with parallel Chern-Moser-Weyl tensor and show that the hypersurfaces in this family are pairwise inequivalent globally.

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