Renormalized characteristic forms of the Cheng-Yau metric and global CR invariants

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2020.107468MaRDI QIDQ2217532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 30 December 2020

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10684

\(\mathcal{I}^\prime\)-curvatures Cheng-Yau metric CR invariants renormalized characteristic forms strictly pseudoconvex domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strongly pseudoconvex domains (32T15) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55)

Abstract: For each invariant polynomial

P h i

, we construct a global CR invariant via the renormalized characteristic form of the Cheng--Yau metric on a strictly pseudoconvex domain. When the degree of

P h i

is 0, the invariant agrees with the total

Q^{'}

-curvature. When the degree is equal to the CR dimension, we construct a primed pseudo-hermitian invariant

m a t h c a l I'_{P} h i

which integrates to the corresponding CR invariant. These are generalizations of the

m a t h c a l I^{'}

-curvature on CR five-manifolds, introduced by Case--Gover.

Review text

Given a bounded strictly pseudo-convex domain \(\Omega\) with defining function \(\rho\), the Cheng-Yau metric \(g\) is defined by the Kähler form \(\omega:=-i\,\partial\bar{\partial}\log\rho\) with curvature form \(\Psi_i^{\,\,\,j}\). \textit{D. Burns} and \textit{C. L. Epstein} [Acta Math., 164, 29--71 (1990; Zbl 0704.32005)] defined a re-normalized Levi-Civita connection \(\overline{\nabla}\) and a re-normalized curvature \(W\) which coincides with the \((1,1)\)-component of the curvature \(\Theta_i^{\,\,\,j}\) of \(\overline{\nabla}\). For an Ad-invariant polynomial \(\Phi\) on \(\mathfrak{gl}(n + 1, \mathbb{C})\), they showed that \(\Phi(W) = \Phi(\Theta)\) and they called it the re-normalized characteristic form, its integral converges to a biholomorphic invariant of \(\Omega\) if \(\Phi\) has degree \(n + 1\). Burns and Epstein proved that this number is determined by local geometric data of the boundary. More generally, if \(M\) is the boundary of a strictly pseudoconvex domain in a complex manifold of dimension \(n+1\), one can define the Cheng-Yau metric \(g\) in terms of a Fefferman defining function \(\rho\) (in \S 2 and \S 3 of the paper some material about CR geometry and the Cheng-Yau metric is summed up). Then, if \(\Theta\) defines the curvature form of the re-normalized connection defined via \(\rho\), one can expand \[c_{n+1}(\Theta)= c_{n+1}(\Psi)+\sum_{m=0}^n \omega^{n+1-m}\wedge \Phi_m(\Theta)\,, \] where \(\Phi_m\) is an invariant polynomial of degree \(m\). The main theorem states that the finite part \[\mathrm{fp}\int_{\rho > \epsilon} \omega^{n+1-m} \wedge \Phi(\Theta) \] is an integral over \(M\) of a linear combination of the complete contractions of polynomials in the Tanaka-Webster curvature, torsion and their covariant derivatives. It gives a \(CR\) invariant of the boundary \(M\).

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