On the topological structure of complex tangencies to embeddings of S^3 into C^3

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Authors Ali M. Elgindi

Publication date 25 October 2012

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07992, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2012/18-16.html

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zbMATH Keywords

\(3\)-spherecomplex tangentsreal submanifolds of complex space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Real submanifolds in complex manifolds (32V40) Other complex differential geometry (53C56)

Abstract: In the mid-1980's, M. Gromov used his machinery of the $h$-principle to prove that there exists totally real embeddings of $S^3$ into $mathbb{C}^3$. Subsequently, Patrick Ahern and Walter Rudin explicitly demonstrated such a totally real embedding. In this paper, we consider the generic situation for such embeddings, namely where complex tangents arise as codimension-2 subspaces. We first consider the Heisenberg group $mathbbH$ and generate some interesting results there-in. Then, by using the biholomorphism of $mathbbH$ with the 3-sphere minus a point, we demonstrate that every homeomorphism-type of knot in $S^3$ may arise precisely as the set of complex tangents to an embedding $S^{3}hookrightarrowmathbb{C}^3$. We also make note of the (non-generic) situation where complex tangents arise along surfaces.

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