A fourth order curvature flow on a CR 3-manifold

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2007.56.3001MaRDI QIDQ5423228zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shu-Cheng Chang, Jih-Hsin Cheng, Hung-Lin Chiu

Publication date 23 October 2007

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510494

zbMATH Keywords

\(Q\)-curvature flowCR manifoldKohn LaplacianMoser inequalitysub-LaplacianTanaka-Webster curvaturetorsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20)

Abstract: Let $(mathbf{M}^3,J,het{a}_0)$ be a closed pseudohermitian 3-manifold. Suppose the associated torsion vanishes and the associated $Q$-curvature has no kernel part with respect to the associated Paneitz operator. On such a background pseudohermitian 3-manifold, we study the change of the contact form according to a certain version of normalized $Q$-curvature flow. This is a fourth order evolution equation. We prove that the solution exists for all time and converges smoothly to a contact form of zero $Q$ -curvature. We also consider other background conditions and obtain a priori bounds up to high orders for the solution.

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