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Free CR distributions

Differential Geometry 2015-11-13 v1 Complex Variables

Abstract

There are only some exceptional CR dimensions and codimensions such that the geometries enjoy a discrete classification of the pointwise types of the homogeneous models. The cases of CR dimensions nn and codimensions n2n^2 are among the very few possibilities of the so called parabolic geometries. Indeed, the homogeneous model turns out to be \PSU(n+1,n)/P\PSU(n+1,n)/P with a suitable parabolic subgroup PP. We study the geometric properties of such real (2n+n2)(2n+n^2)-dimensional submanifolds in Cn+n2\mathbb C^{n+n^2} for all n>1n>1. In particular we show that the fundamental invariant is of torsion type, we provide its explicit computation, and we discuss an analogy to the Fefferman construction of a circle bundle in the hypersurface type CR geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1206.0964,
  title  = {Free CR distributions},
  author = {Gerd Schmalz and Jan Slovak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0964},
  year   = {2015}
}
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