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The CR-Volume of Horizontal Submanifolds of Spheres

Differential Geometry 2024-01-23 v1

Abstract

We study an analog in CR-geometry of the conformal volume of Li-Yau. In particular, to submanifolds of odd-dimensional spheres that are Legendrian or, more generally, horizontal with respect to the sphere's standard CR-structure we associate a quantity that is invariant under the CR-automorphisms of the sphere. We apply this concept to a corresponding notion of Willmore energy.

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@article{arxiv.2401.11357,
  title  = {The CR-Volume of Horizontal Submanifolds of Spheres},
  author = {Jacob Bernstein and Arunima Bhattacharya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11357},
  year   = {2024}
}

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38 pages