This work reports on the author's recent study about regularity and the singular set of a C 1 smooth surface with prescribed p (or H)-mean curvature in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group.As a differential equation...This work reports on the author's recent study about regularity and the singular set of a C 1 smooth surface with prescribed p (or H)-mean curvature in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group.As a differential equation,this is a degenerate hyperbolic and elliptic PDE of second order,arising from the study of CR geometry.Assuming only the p-mean curvature H ∈ C 0,it is shown that any characteristic curve is C 2 smooth and its (line) curvature equals-H.By introducing special coordinates and invoking the jump formulas along characteristic curves,it is proved that the Legendrian (horizontal) normal gains one more derivative.Therefore the seed curves are C 2 smooth.This work also obtains the uniqueness of characteristic and seed curves passing through a common point under some mild conditions,respectively.In an on-going project,it is shown that the p-area element is in fact C 2 smooth along any characteristic curve and satisfies a certain ordinary differential equation of second order.Moreover,this ODE is analyzed to study the singular set.展开更多
In the 1970’s, Folland and Stein studied a family of subelliptic scalar operators $ \mathcal{L}_\lambda $ which arise naturally in the $ \bar \partial _b $ -complex. They introduced weighted Sobolev spaces as the nat...In the 1970’s, Folland and Stein studied a family of subelliptic scalar operators $ \mathcal{L}_\lambda $ which arise naturally in the $ \bar \partial _b $ -complex. They introduced weighted Sobolev spaces as the natural spaces for this complex, and then obtained sharp estimates for $ \bar \partial _b $ in these spaces using integral kernels and approximate inverses. In the 1990’s, Rumin introduced a differential complex for compact contact manifolds, showed that the Folland-Stein operators are central to the analysis for the corresponding Laplace operator, and derived the necessary estimates for the Laplacian from the Folland Stein analysis. In this paper, we give a self-contained derivation of sharp estimates in the anisotropic Folland-Stein spaces for the operators studied by Rumin using integration by parts and a modified approach to bootstrapping.展开更多
In 1993, Tsai proved that a proper holomorphic mapping f: Ω → Ω′ from an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Ω of rank ? 2 into a bounded symmetric domain Ω′ is necessarily totally geodesic provided that r′:=...In 1993, Tsai proved that a proper holomorphic mapping f: Ω → Ω′ from an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Ω of rank ? 2 into a bounded symmetric domain Ω′ is necessarily totally geodesic provided that r′:= rank(Ωg’) ? rank(Ω):= r, proving a conjecture of the author’s motivated by Hermitian metric rigidity. As a first step in the proof, Tsai showed that df preserves almost everywhere the set of tangent vectors of rank 1. Identifying bounded symmetric domains as open subsets of their compact duals by means of the Borel embedding, this means that the germ of f at a general point preserves the varieties of minimal rational tangents (VMRTs).In another completely different direction Hwang-Mok established with very few exceptions the Cartan-Fubini extension priniciple for germs of local biholomorphisms between Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, showing that the germ of map extends to a global biholomorphism provided that it preserves VMRTs. We propose to isolate the problem of characterization of special holomorphic embeddings between Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, especially in the case of classical manifolds such as rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1, by a non-equidimensional analogue of the Cartan-Fubini extension principle. As an illustration we show along this line that standard embeddings between complex Grassmann manifolds of rank ? 2 can be characterized by the VMRT-preserving property and a non-degeneracy condition, giving a new proof of a result of Neretin’s which on the one hand paves the way for far-reaching generalizations to the context of rational homogeneous spaces and more generally Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, on the other hand should be applicable to the study of proper holomorphic mappings between bounded domains carrying some form of geometric structures.展开更多
基金supported by the "Science Council" of Taiwan 11529,China (Grant No. 97-2115-M-001-016-MY3)
文摘This work reports on the author's recent study about regularity and the singular set of a C 1 smooth surface with prescribed p (or H)-mean curvature in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group.As a differential equation,this is a degenerate hyperbolic and elliptic PDE of second order,arising from the study of CR geometry.Assuming only the p-mean curvature H ∈ C 0,it is shown that any characteristic curve is C 2 smooth and its (line) curvature equals-H.By introducing special coordinates and invoking the jump formulas along characteristic curves,it is proved that the Legendrian (horizontal) normal gains one more derivative.Therefore the seed curves are C 2 smooth.This work also obtains the uniqueness of characteristic and seed curves passing through a common point under some mild conditions,respectively.In an on-going project,it is shown that the p-area element is in fact C 2 smooth along any characteristic curve and satisfies a certain ordinary differential equation of second order.Moreover,this ODE is analyzed to study the singular set.
基金This work was supported by NSERC(Grant No.RGPIN/9319-2005)
文摘In the 1970’s, Folland and Stein studied a family of subelliptic scalar operators $ \mathcal{L}_\lambda $ which arise naturally in the $ \bar \partial _b $ -complex. They introduced weighted Sobolev spaces as the natural spaces for this complex, and then obtained sharp estimates for $ \bar \partial _b $ in these spaces using integral kernels and approximate inverses. In the 1990’s, Rumin introduced a differential complex for compact contact manifolds, showed that the Folland-Stein operators are central to the analysis for the corresponding Laplace operator, and derived the necessary estimates for the Laplacian from the Folland Stein analysis. In this paper, we give a self-contained derivation of sharp estimates in the anisotropic Folland-Stein spaces for the operators studied by Rumin using integration by parts and a modified approach to bootstrapping.
基金This research is partially supported by a Competitive Earmarked Research Grant of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong,China
文摘In 1993, Tsai proved that a proper holomorphic mapping f: Ω → Ω′ from an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Ω of rank ? 2 into a bounded symmetric domain Ω′ is necessarily totally geodesic provided that r′:= rank(Ωg’) ? rank(Ω):= r, proving a conjecture of the author’s motivated by Hermitian metric rigidity. As a first step in the proof, Tsai showed that df preserves almost everywhere the set of tangent vectors of rank 1. Identifying bounded symmetric domains as open subsets of their compact duals by means of the Borel embedding, this means that the germ of f at a general point preserves the varieties of minimal rational tangents (VMRTs).In another completely different direction Hwang-Mok established with very few exceptions the Cartan-Fubini extension priniciple for germs of local biholomorphisms between Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, showing that the germ of map extends to a global biholomorphism provided that it preserves VMRTs. We propose to isolate the problem of characterization of special holomorphic embeddings between Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, especially in the case of classical manifolds such as rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1, by a non-equidimensional analogue of the Cartan-Fubini extension principle. As an illustration we show along this line that standard embeddings between complex Grassmann manifolds of rank ? 2 can be characterized by the VMRT-preserving property and a non-degeneracy condition, giving a new proof of a result of Neretin’s which on the one hand paves the way for far-reaching generalizations to the context of rational homogeneous spaces and more generally Fano manifolds of Picard number 1, on the other hand should be applicable to the study of proper holomorphic mappings between bounded domains carrying some form of geometric structures.
