Deformations and embeddings of three-dimensional strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds

Abstract: Abstract deformations of the CR structure of a compact strictly pseudoconvex hypersurface

M

in

m a t h b b C^{2}

are encoded by complex functions on

M

. In sharp contrast with the higher dimensional case, the natural integrability condition for

3

-dimensional CR structures is vacuous, and generic deformations of a compact strictly pseudoconvex hypersurface

M s u b s e t e q m a t h b b C^{2}

are not embeddable even in

m a t h b b C^{N}

for any

N

. A fundamental (and difficult) problem is to characterize when a complex function on

M s u b s e t e q m a t h b b C^{2}

gives rise to an actual deformation of

M

inside

m a t h b b C^{2}

. In this paper we study the embeddability of families of deformations of a given embedded CR

3

-manifold, and the structure of the space of embeddable CR structures on

S^{3}

. We show that the space of embeddable deformations of the standard CR

3

-sphere is a Frechet submanifold of

C^{i n f t y} (S^{3}, m a t h b b C)

near the origin. We establish a modified version of the Cheng-Lee slice theorem in which we are able to characterize precisely the embeddable deformations in the slice (in terms of spherical harmonics). We also introduce a canonical family of embeddable deformations and corresponding embeddings starting with any infinitesimally embeddable deformation of the unit sphere in

m a t h b b C^{2}

.

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