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Study intrinsic volume forms on complex hypersurfaces.

The paper explores properties of CR hypersurfaces and their flatness.

We introduce analogues of a map due to Rossi and show how they can be used to explicitly determine all covers of certain homogeneous strongly pseudoconvex 3-dimensional hypersurfaces that appear in the classification obtained by E. Cartan in 1932.

A unimodular complex surface is a complex 2-manifold X endowed with a holomorphic volume form. A strictly pseudoconvex real hypersurface M in X inherits not only a CR-structure but a canonical coframing as well. In this article, this canonical coframing on M is defined, its invariants are discussed and interpreted geom…

Modelled on a real hypersurface in a quaternionic manifold, we introduce a quaternionic analogue of CR structure, called quaternionic CR structure. We define the strong pseudoconvexity of this structure as well as the notion of quaternionic pseudohermitian structure. Following the construction of the Tanaka-Webster con…

For a smooth strictly pseudoconvex hypersurface in a complex manifold, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for being CR-diffeomorphic to a real-analytic CR manifold. Our condition amounts to a holomorphic extension property for the canonically associated function expressing $2$-jets of the formal Segre varieti…

We present new results concerning the solvability, of lack thereof, in the Cauchy problem for the debar operator, with initial values assigned on a weakly pseudoconvex hypersurface, and provide illustrative examples.

Let $M$ be the image of a smooth CR embedding of a strictly pseudoconvex CR real hypersurface into a sphere. If the CR second fundamental form of $M$ vanishes, we show that $M$ is a totally geodesic submanifold.

A generalization to the almost complex setting of a well-known result by S. Webster is given. Namely, we prove that if $Γ$ is a strongly pseudoconvex hypersurface in an almost complex manifold $(M, J)$, then the conormal bundle of $Γ$ is a totally real submanifold of $(T^*M, \J)$, where $\J$ is the lifted almost comple…

A locally conformally Kahler (LCK) manifold is a complex manifold admitting a Kahler covering M, such that its monodromy acts on this covering by homotheties. A compact LCK manifold is called LCK with potential if M admits an authomorphic Kahler potential. It is known that in this case it is an algebraic cone, that is,…

This paper studies CR manifolds and embeddability in complex spaces.

A pseudo-Einstein contact form plays a crucial role in defining some global invariants of closed strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds. In this paper, we prove that the existence of a pseudo-Einstein contact form is preserved under deformations as a real hypersurface in a fixed complex manifold of complex dimension at lea…

The paper extends Newlander-Nirenberg theorem to domains with $C^2$ boundary.

In this paper it is shown that a CR embedding from one strictly pseudoconvex hypersurface into another (of strictly larger dimension) sends chains on the source to chains on the target if and only if the embedding has a lift to a conformal isometry of the associated Fefferman bundles with vanishing pseudo-Riemannian se…

The paper studies Kähler-Einstein metrics on circle bundles and their obstruction flatness.

Let $X$ be a compact connected strongly pseudoconvex $CR$ manifold of real dimension $2n-1$ in $\mathbb{C}^{N}$. For $n\ge 3$, Yau solved the complex Plateau problem of hypersurface type by checking a bunch of Kohn-Rossi cohomology groups in 1981. In this paper, we generalize Yau's conjecture on some numerical invarian…

Introduces Levi core for CR manifolds, linking it to global invariants.

We combine Freedman's topology with Eliashberg's holomorphic theory to construct Stein neighborhood systems in complex surfaces, and use these to study various notions of convexity and concavity. Every tame, topologically embedded 2-complex K in a complex surface, after C^0-small topological ambient isotopy, is the int…

Given a closed complex hypersurface $Z\subset \mathbb{C}^{N+1}$ $(N\in\mathbb{N})$ and a compact subset $K\subset Z$, we prove the existence of a pseudoconvex Runge domain $D$ in $Z$ such that $K\subset D$ and there is a complete proper holomorphic embedding from $D$ into the unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^{N+1}$. For $N=1$,…

Sharp lower bound for curvature in Kähler manifolds.

In this paper, we consider real hypersurfaces $M$ in $\Bbb C^3$ (or more generally, 5-dimensional CR manifolds of hypersurface type) at uniformly Levi degenerate points, i.e. Levi degenerate points such that the rank of the Levi form is constant in a neighborhood. We also require the hypersurface to satisfy a certain s…

Let $M^{2n-1}$ be the smooth boundary of a bounded strongly pseudo-convex domain $Ω$ in a complete Stein manifold $V^{2n}$. Then (1) For $n \ge 3$, $M^{2n-1}$ admits a pseudo-Eistein metric; (2) For $n \ge 2$, $M^{2n-1}$ admits a Fefferman metric of zero CR Q-curvature; and (3) for a compact strictly pseudoconvex CR em…

Study shows Bergman metric is non-Einstein for certain domains.

Let $Ω$ be a pseudoconvex domain with $C^2$-smooth boundary in $\mathbb CP^n$. We prove that the $\bar\partial-Neumann operator$N$exists for$(p,q)$-forms on$Ω$. Furthermore, there exists a$t_0>0$such that the operators$N$,$\bar\partial^*N$,$\bar\partial N$ and the Bergman projection are regular in the Sobolev …

This paper is a sequel to \cite{Choi} in Math. Ann. In that paper we studied the subharmonicity of Kähler-Einstein metrics on strongly pseudoconvex domains of dimension greater than or equal to $3$. In this paper, we study the variations Kähler-Einstein metrics on bounded strongly pseudoconvex domains of dimension $2$.…

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…

In a recent expository article (Notices of the AMS, 58 (2011), no. 1, 20-27), Ezhov, McLaughlin and Schmalz showed how to perform in an effective way Tanaka's prolongation procedure valid generally for filtered structures of constant type when the distribution is equipped with an integrable complex structure, so as to …

Investigate pseudoconvexity of locally trivial holomorphic ball bundles over compact Riemann surfaces.

Smooth families of biholomorphisms between strongly pseudoconvex domains are shown to be smooth.

The Bergman-Szegő kernel is analyzed for weakly pseudoconvex CR manifolds of finite type.

We obtain an embedding theorem for compact strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds which are bounadries of some complete Hermitian manifolds. We use this to compactify some negatively curved Kaehler manifolds with compact strongly pseudoconvex boundary. An embedding theorem for Sasakian manifolds is also derived.

The pseudoconvex and disprisoning conditions for geodesics of linear connections are extended to the solution curves of general homogeneous sprays. The main result is that pseudoconvexity and disprisonment are jointly stable in the fine topology on the space of all homogeneous sprays of any degree of homogeneity.

We address the problem of existence and uniqueness of a Levi-flat hypersurface $M$ in $C^n$ with prescribed compact boundary $S$ for $n\ge3$. The situation for $n\ge3$ differs sharply from the well studied case $n=2$. We first establish necessary conditions on $S$ at both complex and CR points, needed for the existence…

Study on eigenvalues of complex Hessian operator on pseudoconvex manifolds.

The paper proves a conjecture about the Bergman metric of real analytic domains.

Compactifies CR structures for complex hyperbolic manifolds.

We develop a spinorial description of CR structures of arbitrary codimension. More precisely, we characterize almost CR structures of arbitrary codimension on (Riemannian) manifolds by the existence of a Spin$^{c, r}$ structure carrying a partially pure spinor field. We study various integrability conditions of the alm…

The paper proves a disk's energy minimizer is holomorphic and calculates its Morse index.

Paper introduces a new Poisson kernel for strongly pseudoconvex domains.

In this note we shall prove that the complete Kähler-Einstein volume form on a bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain with $C^{\infty}$-boundary is the normalized limit of a sequence of Bergman kernels.

For any pseudoconvex Runge domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{C}^2$ we prove that every closed discrete subset in $Ω$ is contained in a properly embedded complex curve in $Ω$ with any prescribed topology (possibly infinite).

Study CR Yamabe constant and CR structures on manifolds.

We prove a local boundary regularity result for the complete Kahler-Einstein metrics of negative Ricci curvature near strictly pseudoconvex boundary point. We also study the asymptotic behaviour of their holomorphic bisectional curvatures near such points.

Study Kähler-Ricci solitons on bounded domains, proving they are Kähler-Einstein.

We study Kahler manifolds-with-boundary, not necessarily compact, with weakly pseudoconvex boundary, each component of which is compact. If such a manifold $K$ has $l\ge2$ boundary components (possibly $l=\infty$), then it has first betti number at least $l-1$, and the Levi form of any boundary component is zero. If $K…

This short paper gives a constraint on Chern classes of closed strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds (or equivalently, closed holomorphically fillable contact manifolds) of dimension at least five. We also see that our result is ''optimal'' through some examples.

We refine estimates introduced by Balogh and Bonk, to show that the boundary extensions of isometries between smooth strongly pseudoconvex domains in $\C^n$ are conformal with respect to the sub-Riemannian metric induced by the Levi form. As a corollary we obtain an alternative proof of a result of Fefferman on smooth …

The paper proves that a fiberwise Kähler-Ricci flow is positive for all time on a family of bounded strongly pseudoconvex domains.