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On the Sobolev quotient of three-dimensional CR manifolds

Differential Geometry 2019-04-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We exhibit examples of compact three-dimensional CR manifolds of positive Webster class, {\em Rossi spheres}, for which the pseudo-hermitian mass as defined in \cite{CMY17} is negative, and for which the infimum of the CR-Sobolev quotient is not attained. To our knowledge, this is the first geometric context on smooth closed manifolds where this phenomenon arises, in striking contrast to the Riemannian case.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04665,
  title  = {On the Sobolev quotient of three-dimensional CR manifolds},
  author = {Jih-Hsin Cheng and Andrea Malchiodi and Paul Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04665},
  year   = {2019}
}

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36 pages, 2 figures