The Teichmüller distance on the space of spherical CR structures

We define the Teichmüller pseudodistance on the space of spherical CR structures on a fixed compact manifold by using quasiconformal mappings between spherical CR manifolds. The pseudodistance is shown to be a complete distance. Dedicated to Professor Sheng GONG on the occasion of his 75th birthday     

On the computation of a versal family of matrices

The aim of this article is to present algorithms for the computation of versal deformations of matrices. A deformation of a matrixA ₀ is a holomorphic matrix-valued function whose value at a pointt ₀C ^p is the matrixA ₀. We want to study the properties of these matrices in a neighbourhood oft ₀. One could, for each valuet in this neighbourhood, compute the Jordan form as well as the change of basis matrix; but, generally, the results will not be analytic. So, we want to construct a deformation of the matrixA ₀ into which any deformation can be transformed by an invertible deformation of the matrixId. After having introduced the notion of versal deformation, we shall provide computer algebra algorithms to computer these normal forms. In the last section, we shall show that a one-parameter deformation can be transformed into a simpler form than the general versal deformation.     

Kaehler structures on

Let be a compact connected semi-simple Lie group, let , and let be an Iwasawa decomposition. To a given -invariant Kaehler structure on , there corresponds a pre-quantum line bundle on . Following a suggestion of A.S. Schwarz, in a joint paper with V. Guillemin, we studied its holomorphic sections as a -representation space. We defined a -invariant -structure on , and let denote the space of square-integrable holomorphic sections. Then is a unitary -representation space, but not all unitary irreducible -representations occur as subrepresentations of . This paper serves as a continuation of that work, by generalizing the space considered. Let be a Borel subgroup containing , with commutator subgroup . Instead of working with , we consider , for all parabolic subgroups containing . We carry out a similar construction, and recover in the unitary irreducible -representations previously missing. As a result, we use these holomorphic sections to construct a model for : a unitary -representation in which every irreducible -representation occurs with multiplicity one.

     

The Teichmuller distance on the space of spherical CR structures Dedicated to Professor Sheng GONG on the occasion of his 75th birthday

We define the Teichmuller pseudodistance on the space of spherical CR structures on a fixed compact manifold by using quasiconformal mappings between spherical CR manifolds. The pseudodistance is shown to be a complete distance.     

The scalar curvature of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of complex projective space

We treat n-dimensional compact minimal submanifolds of complex projective space when the maximal holomorphic tangent subspace is (n − 1)-dimensional and we give a sufficient condition for such submanifolds to be tubes over totally geodesic complex subspaces. Authors’ addresses: Mirjana Djorić, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, pb. 550, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; Masafumi Okumura, 5-25-25 Minami Ikuta, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Japan     

Normal CR structures on compact 3-manifolds

We study normal CR compact manifolds in dimension 3. For a choice of a CR Reeb vector field, we associate a Sasakian metric on them, and we classify those metrics. As a consequence, the underlying manifolds are topologically finite quotients of or of a non-flat circle bundle over a Riemann surface of positive genus. In the latter case, we prove that their CR automorphisms group is a finite extension of , and we classify the normal CR structures on these manifolds. Received: 14 March 2000 / Published online: 17 May 2001     

The space of minimal structures

For a signature L with at least one constant symbol, an L‐structure is called minimal if it has no proper substructures. Let be the set of isomorphism types of minimal L‐structures. The elements of can be identified with ultrafilters of the Boolean algebra of quantifier‐free L‐sentences, and therefore one can define a Stone topology on . This topology on generalizes the topology of the space of n‐marked groups. We introduce a natural ultrametric on , and show that the Stone topology on coincides with the topology of the ultrametric space iff the ultrametric space is compact iff L is locally finite (that is, L contains finitely many n‐ary symbols for any ). As one of the applications of compactness of the Stone topology on , we prove compactness of certain classes of metric spaces in the Gromov‐Hausdorff topology. This slightly refines the known result based on Gromov's ideas that any uniformly totally bounded class of compact metric spaces is precompact.     

Certain CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of complex space forms

We study m-dimensional real submanifolds with (m−1)-dimensional maximal holomorphic tangent subspace in complex space forms. On such a manifold there exists an almost contact structure which is naturally induced from the ambient space and in this paper we study the anti-commutative condition of the almost contact structure and the second fundamental form of these submanifolds and we characterize certain model spaces in complex space forms.     

Normal curvature of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of the complex projective space

We prove that there do not exist CR submanifolds Mⁿ of maximal CR dimension of a complex projective space \({\mathbf{P}^{\frac{n+p}{2}}(\mathbf{C})}\) with flat normal connection D of M, when the distinguished normal vector field is parallel with respect to D. If D is lift-flat, then there exists a totally geodesic complex projective subspace \({\mathbf{P}^{\frac{n+1}{2}}(\mathbf{C})}\) of \({\mathbf{P}^{\frac{n+p}{2}}(\mathbf{C})}\) such that M is a real hypersurface of \({\mathbf{P}^{\frac{n+1}{2}}(\mathbf{C})}\).     

Certain condition on the second fundamental form of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of complex hyperbolic space

Studying the condition \({h(FX,Y)-h(X,FY)=g(FX,Y)\eta, 0\ne\eta\in T^\perp(M)}\) on the almost contact structure F and on the second fundamental form h of n-dimensional real submanifolds M of complex hyperbolic space \({\mathbb {CH}^{\frac{n+p}{2}}}\) when their maximal holomorphic tangent subspace is (n ? 1)-dimensional, we obtain the complete classification of such submanifolds M and we characterize certain model spaces in complex hyperbolic space.