Paired CR structures and the example of Falbel's cross-ratio variety

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0123-3MaRDI QIDQ280140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ioannis D. Platis

Publication date 29 April 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7504

zbMATH Keywords

CR structurescross-ratiospaired CR structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05)

Abstract: We introduce pseudoconformal structures on 4--dimensional manifolds and study their properties. Such structures are arising from two different complex operators which agree in a 2--dimensional subbundle of the tangent bundle; this subbundle thus forms a codimension 2 $mCR$ structure. A special case is that of a strictly pseudoconformal structure: in this case, the two complex operators are also opposite in a 2-dimensional subbundle which is complementary to the $mCR$ structure. A non trivial example of a manifold endowed with a (strictly) pseudoconformal structure is Falbel's cross--ratio variety $mathfrakX$; this variety is isomorphic to the $mPU(2,1)$ configuration space of quadruples of pairwise distinct points in $S^3$. We first prove that there are two complex structures that appear naturally in $mathfrakX$; these give $mathfrakX$ a pseudoconformal structure which coincides with its well known $mCR$ structure. Using a non trivial involution of $mathfrakX$ we then prove that $mathfrakX$ is a strictly pseudoconformal manifold. The geometric meaning of this involution as well as its interconnections with the $mCR$ and complex structures of $mathfrakX$ are also studied here in detail.

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