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Complex Tangencies to Embeddings of Heisenberg Groups and Odd-Dimensional Spheres

Complex Variables 2015-06-29 v1

Abstract

The notion of a complex tangent arises for embeddings of real manifolds into complex spaces. It is of particular interest when studying embeddings of real nn-dimensional manifolds into Cn\mathbb{C}^n. The generic topological structure of the set complex tangents to such embeddings MnCnM^n \hookrightarrow \mathbb{C}^n takes the form of a (stratified) (n2)(n-2)-dimensional submanifiold of MnM^n. In this paper, we generalize our results from our previous work for the 3-dimensional sphere and the Heisenberg group to obtain results regarding the possible topological configurations of the sets of complex tangents to embeddings of odd-dimensional spheres S2n1C2n1S^{2n-1} \hookrightarrow \mathbb{C}^{2n-1} by first considering the situation for the higher dimensional analogues of the Heisenberg group.

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@article{arxiv.1506.07991,
  title  = {Complex Tangencies to Embeddings of Heisenberg Groups and Odd-Dimensional Spheres},
  author = {Ali M. Elgindi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07991},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Formal version published at: International Journal of Mathematics Vol. 25, No. 3 (2014), Article No. 1450028