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Models of 2-nondegenerate CR hypersurfaces in C^N are characterized and their defining equations simplified.

We study CR hypersurfaces in C^4 with constant rank Levi form and find their defining equations.

Normal forms and invariants for nondegenerate hypersurfaces in C^2.

Classifies homogeneous CR hypersurfaces in low dimensions with maximal symmetry.

Study finds maximal symmetry groups for CR structures with specific properties.

Motivated by the ideas and methods used by Naitoh in the consideration of parallel totally real submanifolds in complex space forms, the author of the present paper successfully makes use of the so called Jordan triple and (restricted) structure Lie algebra associated with a given Jordan algebra to establish a one-to-o…

Minimal surfaces in 8D smooth and nondegenerate.

Complete normal forms for specific real hypersurfaces in complex space are constructed.

In our earlier articles we studied tube hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb C}^3$ that are 2-nondegenerate and uniformly Levi degenerate of rank 1. In particular, we showed that the vanishing of the CR-curvature of such a hypersurface is equivalent to the Monge equation with respect to one of the variables. In the present paper…

New CR hypersurfaces in complex space with specific properties.

Mean curvature flow is not a gradient flow on two nondegenerate metric spaces.

Strictly stable Allen-Cahn hypersurfaces have multiplicity one.

We develope in great computational details the classical Cartan equivalence problem for Levi-nondegenerate C^6-smooth real hypersurfaces M^3 in C^2, performing all calculations effectively in terms of a (local) graphing function \varphi. In particular, we present explicitly the unique (complex) essential invariant J of…

Study on CR structures in 7D, proving maximal symmetry dimension.

Defines pre-Kähler structures and their properties.

We extend the notion of a fundamental negatively $\mathbb Z$-graded Lie algebra $\mathfrak{m}_x=\bigoplus_{p\leq -1}\mathfrak{m}_x^p$ associated to any point of a Levi nondegenerate CR manifold to the class of $k$-nondegenerate CR manifolds $(M,\mathcal D,\mathcal J)$ for all $k\geq 2$ and call this invariant the core …

Study on hypersurfaces in Einstein manifolds using Killing spinors.

Study shows strong min-max principle for phase transitions.

Basic aspects of the equiaffine geometry of level sets are developed systematically. As an application there are constructed families of $2n$-dimensional nondegenerate hypersurfaces ruled by $n$-planes, having equiaffine mean curvature zero, and solving the affine normal flow. Each carries a symplectic structure with r…

Given any nondegenerate k-dimensional minimal submanifold K of codimension greater than 1, we prove the existence of families of constant mean curvature submanifolds, with mean curvature varying from one member of the family to another, which `condense' to K. In particular, our result proves the existence of constant m…

We explicitly determine the structure equations of 5-dimensional Levi 2-nondegenerate CR hypersurfaces, using our recently constructed canonical Cartan connection for this class of CR manifolds. We also give an outline of the basic properties of absolute parallelisms and Cartan connections, together with a brief discus…

We give series of explicit examples of Levi-nondegenerate real-analytic hypersurfaces in complex spaces that are not transversally holomorphically embeddable into hyperquadrics of any dimension. For this, we construct invariants attached to a given hypersurface that serve as obstructions to embeddability. We further st…

In this paper we construct a large class of new normal forms for Levi-nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in complex spaces. We adopt a general approach illustrating why these normal forms are natural and which role is played by the celebrated Chern-Moser normal form. The latter appears in our class as the one with the "m…

The geometry of canal hypersurfaces of an n-dimensional conformal space C^n is studied. Such hypersurfaces are envelopes of r-parameter families of hyperspheres, 1 \leq r \leq n-2. In the present paper the conditions that characterize canal hypersurfaces, and which were known earlier, are made more precise. The main at…

Consider a closed connected hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with constant signature (k,l) of the second quadratic form, and approaching a quadratic cone at infinity. This hypersurface divides $\mathbb{R}^n$ into two pieces. We prove that one of them contains a k-dimensional subspace, and another contains a l-dimensional…

The class ${\sf IV}_2$ of $2$-nondegenerate constant Levi rank $1$ hypersurfaces $M^5 \subset \mathbb{C}^3$ is governed by Pocchiola's two primary invariants $W_0$ and $J_0$. Their vanishing characterizes equivalence of such a hypersurface $M^5$ to the tube $M_{\sf LC}^5$ over the real light cone in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Whe…

Constructs a mean curvature flow with surgery for compact mean convex hypersurfaces.

We apply E. Cartan's method of equivalence to classify 7-dimensional, 2-nondegenerate CR manifolds $M$ up to local CR equivalence in the case that the cubic form of $M$ satisfies a certain symmetry property with respect to the Levi form of $M$. The solution to the equivalence problem is given by a parallelism on a prin…

Let $Q^N_l\subset \bC\bP^{N+1}$ denote the standard real, nondegenerate hyperquadric of signature $l$ and $M\subset \bC^{n+1}$ a real, Levi nondegenerate hypersurface of the same signature $l$. We shall assume that there is a holomorphic mapping $H_0\colon U\to \bC\bP^{N_0+1}$, where $U$ is some neighborhood of $M$ in …

Rugang Ye proved the existence of a family of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in an $m+1$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M^{m+1},g)$, which concentrate at a point $p_0$ (which is required to be a nondegenerate critical point of the scalar curvature), moreover he proved that this family constitute a foliation o…

Let M,M' be smooth real hypersurfaces in N-dimensional space and assume that M is k-nondegenerate at a point p in M. We prove that holomorphic mappings that extend smoothly to M, sending a neighborhood of p in M diffeomorphically into M' are completely determined by their 2k-jet at p. As an application of this result, …

Motivated by a problem in local differential geometry of Cauchy--Riemann (CR) structures of hypersurface type, we find a canonical form for pairs consisting of a nondegenerate Hermitian form and a self-adjoint antilinear operator, or, equivalently, consisting of a nondegenerate Hermitian form and a symmetric bilinear f…

We continue our study, initiated in an earlier article, of a class of rigid hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb C}^3$ that are 2-nondegenerate and uniformly Levi degenerate of rank 1, having zero CR-curvature. We drop the restrictive assumptions of the earlier paper and give a complete description of the class. Surprisingly, th…

A Levi nondegenerate real analytic hypersurface M of C^2 represented in local coordinates (z, w) in C^2 by a complex defining equation of the form w = Theta (z, \bar z, \bar w) which satisfies an appropriate reality condition, is spherical if and only if its complex graphing function Theta satisfies an explicitly writt…

We prove that the existence of a dispersionless Lax pair with spectral parameter for a nondegenerate hyperbolic second order partial differential equation (PDE) is equivalent to the canonical conformal structure defined by the symbol being Einstein-Weyl on any solution in 3D, and self-dual on any solution in 4D. The fi…

Let $\widetilde{J}$ be the canonical para-complex structure on $\mathbb{R}^4$. In this paper we study $3$-dimensional centro-affine hypersurfaces with a $\widetilde{J}$-tangent centro-affine vector field (sometimes called $\widetilde{J}$-tangent centro-affine hypersurfaces) as well as $3$-dimensional $\widetilde{J}$-ta…

We show that for a real-analytic connected holomorphically nondegenerate 5-dimensional CR-hypersurface $M$ and its symmetry algebra $\mathfrak{s}$ one has either: (i) $\dim\mathfrak{s}=15$ and $M$ is spherical (with Levi form of signature either $(2,0)$ or $(1,1)$ everywhere), or (ii) $\dim\mathfrak{s}\le11$ where $\di…

Develops new approach to recover CR structures from their Levi foliations.

In this work, we prove the existence of a family of solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation with nonlinear Neumann boundary condition under some constraints, whose nodal sets concentrate asymptotically to a given volume nondegenerate capillary hypersurface in a compact Riemannian manifold. Our construction is inspired by …

Investigates CR structures in 7D, showing 8 is max symmetry dimension.

A new direct construction method for Cartan-Moser chains.

The paper improves defect relations for Gauss maps of minimal surfaces intersecting hypersurfaces in projective space.

We give a solution to the equivalence and the embedding problems for smooth CR-submanifolds of complex spaces (and, more generally, for abstract CR-manifolds) in terms of complete differential systems in jet bundles satisfied by all CR-equivalences or CR-embeddings respectively (local and global). For the equivalence p…

We derive an explicit formula for the well-known Chern-Moser-Weyl tensor for nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in complex space in terms of their defining functions. The formula is considerably simplified when applying to "pluriharmonic perturbations" of the sphere or to a Fefferman approximate solution to the complex M…

The paper constructs CR manifolds with arbitrary Levi nondegeneracy.

New metrics produce discrete zero sets for nondegenerate harmonic forms.

Study shows different behaviors of noncompact hypersurfaces under mean curvature flow.

We show that the boundaries of thin strongly pseudoconvex Grauert tubes, with respect to the Guillemin-Stenzel Kähler metric canonically associated with the Poincaré metric on closed hyperbolic real-analytic surfaces, has nowhere vanishing Cartan CR-curvature. This result provides a wealth of examples of compact $3$-di…