A positive mass theorem in three dimensional Cauchy-Riemann geometry

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.12.012MaRDI QIDQ507205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jih-Hsin Cheng, Andrea Malchiodi, Paul C. Yang

Publication date 3 February 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7764

zbMATH Keywords

CR geometryCR Paneitz operatorCR Yamabe problempositive mass theoremTanaka-Webster curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20) Embeddings of CR manifolds (32V30) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Singular elliptic equations (35J75) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We define an ADM-like mass, called p-mass, for an asymptotically flat pseudohermitian manifold. The p-mass for the blow-up of a compact pseudohermitian manifold (with no boundary) is identified with the first nontrivial coefficient in the expansion of the Green function for the CR Laplacian. We deduce an integral formula for the p-mass, and we reduce its positivity to a solution of Kohn's equation. We prove that the p-mass is non-negative for (blow-ups of) compact 3-manifolds of positive Tanaka-Webster class and with non-negative CR Paneitz operator. Under these assumptions, we also characterize the zero mass case as the standard three dimensional CR sphere. We then show the existence of (non-embeddable) CR 3-manifolds having nonpositive Paneitz operator or negative p-mass through a second variation formula. Finally, we apply our main result to find solutions of the CR Yamabe problem with minimal energy.

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