Deformations and embeddings of three-dimensional strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00208-023-02658-YarXiv2007.00547OpenAlexW3039383206MaRDI QIDQ6344217FDOQ6344217

Authors: Sean N. Curry, Peter Ebenfelt 

Publication date: 1 July 2020

Abstract: Abstract deformations of the CR structure of a compact strictly pseudoconvex hypersurface $M$ in $mathbb{C}^2$ 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 $Msubseteqmathbb{C}^2$ are not embeddable even in $mathbb{C}^N$ for any $N$. A fundamental (and difficult) problem is to characterize when a complex function on $Msubseteqmathbb{C}^2$ gives rise to an actual deformation of $M$ inside $mathbb{C}^2$. 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 $C^{infty}(S^3,mathbbC)$ 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 $mathbb{C}^2$.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-023-02658-y

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings of CR manifolds (32V30) Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20)

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