Abstract
We exhibit examples of compact three-dimensional CR manifolds of positive Webster class, Rossi spheres, for which the pseudo-hermitian mass, as defined by Cheng–Malchiodi–Yang (2017), 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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2017-2066 |
Number of pages | 50 |
Journal | Revista Matematica Iberoamericana |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics
Keywords
- CR manifold
- CR-Sobolev quotient
- Rossi sphere
- pseudo-hermitian mass