The bigraded Rumin complex via differential forms

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The book presents a new CR-invariant treatment of the bigraded Rumin complex and the associated cohomology groups via differential forms. Recall that CR manifolds are special cases of contact manifolds. The Rumin complex is a contact-invariant refinement of the de Rham complex. A key property of the Rumin (and bigraded Rumin) complex is that its induced cohomology groups are isomorphic to the de Rham cohomology groups, although it does not recover the de Rham cohomology algebra. The author introduces a new construction of Rumin complexes as balanced \(A_{\infty}\)-algebras, thereby recovering the de Rham cohomology algebra. Related Hodge decomposition theorems are also proven. The author presents many applications: estimates for the dimensions of the Kohn-Rossi cohomology groups; results suggesting that certain spaces in the Garfield spectral sequence should be regarded as CR analogues of the Dolbeault cohomology groups; results concerning topological properties of Sasakian manifolds; and the definition of a cohomology class used to address a conjecture of Lee.



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