Differential Geometry and Analysis on CR Manifolds [Hardcover]

Presents many major differential geometric acheivements in the theory of CR manifolds for the first time in book form

Explains how certain results from analysis are employed in CR geometry

Many examples and explicitly worked-out proofs of main geometric results in the first section of the book making it suitable as a graduate main course or seminar textbook

Provides unproved statements and comments inspiring further study

In fact, it will be invaluable for people working on the differential geometry of CR manifolds. Thomas Garity, MathSciNet

The study of CR manifolds lies at the intersection of three main mathematical disciplines: partial differential equations, complex analysis in several complex variables, and differential geometry. While the PDE and complex analytic aspects have been intensely studied in the last fifty years, much effort has recently been made to understand the differential geometric side of the subject.

This monograph provides a unified presentation of several differential geometric aspects in the theory of CR manifolds and tangential CauchyRiemann equations. It presents the major differential geometric acheivements in the theory of CR manifolds, such as the TanakaWebster connection, Fefferman's metric, pseudo-Einstein structures and the Lee conjecture, CR immersions, subelliptic harmonic maps as a local manifestation of pseudoharmonic maps from a CR manifold, YangMills fields on CR manifolds, to name a few. It also aims at explaining how certain results from analysis are employed in CR geometry.

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