Spectrum of the Kohn Laplacian on the Rossi sphere
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Spectrum of the Kohn Laplacian on the Rossi sphere
zbMATH Open document ID: 1396.32018
author: Tawfik Abbas
author: Madelyne M. Brown
author: Allison Ramasami
author: Yunus E. Zeytuncu
published in: Involve
publication date: 2018-06-13T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05624
review text: Let \(S^3\) denote the unit sphere in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) and \[ \square_b^t=-L_t \frac{1+|t|^2}{(1-|t|^2)^2}\overline{L}_t \] be the Kohn Laplacian on the Rossi example \((S^3,L_t)\) where \[ L_t= \overline{z}_1\frac{\partial}{\partial z_2}-\overline{z}_2\frac{\partial}{\partial z_1} +\overline{t}\left( z_1\frac{\partial}{\partial \overline{z}_2} -z_2\frac{\partial}{\partial \overline{z}_1} \right) \] and \(|t|<1\). \textit{H. Rossi} [in: Proc. Conf. Complex Analysis, Minneapolis 1964, 242--256 (1965; Zbl 0143.30301)] proved that the CR-manifold \((S^3,L_t)\) is not CR-embeddable in \(\mathbb{C}^n\). \textit{J. J. Kohn} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 43, 207--217 (1985; Zbl 0571.58027)] showed that a CR-manifold is CR-embeddable in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) if and only if the tangential Cauchy-Riemann operator \(\overline{\partial}_{b,t}\) has closed range. In this paper the authors show that zero is in the essential spectrum of \(\square_b^t\) on the Rossi example. Their analysis involves spherical harmonics to construct finite-dimensional subspaces of \(L^2(\mathbb{S}^3)\) on which \(\square_b^t\) has a tridiagonal matrix representation. Then they find upper bounds for the small eigenvalues of the matrices and show that the bounds converge to 0. The authors combine their result with Kohn's theorem to give another proof of Rossi's result: \((S^3,L_t)\) is not CR-embeddable in \(\mathbb{C}^n\).
reviewed by: Sönmez Şahutoğlu
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32V30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32V05
zbMATH DE Number: 6887336
zbMATH Keywords: Kohn Laplacian
zbMATH Keywords: spherical harmonics
zbMATH Keywords: global embeddability of CR manifolds
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2963166266
arXiv ID: 1708.05624
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Wikidata QID: Q129731669
DOI: 10.2140/INVOLVE.2019.12.125
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