On a remarkable formula of Jerison and Lee in CR geometry

DOI10.4310/MRL.2015.V22.N1.A14MaRDI QIDQ2346006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiaodong Wang

Publication date 29 May 2015

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5182

zbMATH Keywords

CR manifoldsJerison-Lee identitypseudo-hermitian Einstein manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Real submanifolds in complex manifolds (32V40) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: We discuss a remarkable formula discovered by Jerison and Lee to classify constant scalar curvature pseudohermitian structures on the sphere. We show that the formula is valid in the wider context of Einstein pseudohermitian manifolds. As an application we prove a uniqueness result that generalizes the theorem of Jerison and Lee.

Review text

In the context of generalizing a formula due to Jerison and Lee from the case of Einstein manifolds to the case of CR geometry, namely the case of Einstein pseudo-hermitian manifolds, the main result of the paper is the following: Let \((M^{2m+1}, \tilde{\theta})\) be a closed Einstein pseudo-hermitian manifold. Suppose \( \theta = \phi \tilde {\theta}\) is another pseudo-hermitian structure with constant pseudo-hermitian scalar curvature. Then \( \theta \) is Einstein as well, and, furthermore, \( \phi \) must be constant unless \((M^{2m+1}, \tilde{\theta})\) is CR isometric to \( (\mathbb S ^{2m+1},\theta _{c})\) up to a scaling, and \( \phi \) corresponds to the following function on \( \mathbb S ^{2m+1}\): \[ \phi (z) = c \big| \cosh t + (\sinh t) z \cdot \overline {\xi}\big|^{-2} \] for some \( c> 0\), \(t \geq 0\) and \( {\xi} \in \mathbb S ^{2m+1}\). A presentation of the general framework of the problem is performed and a useful appendix contains some CR computational formulas necessary for the understanding of the proof.

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