Stability of the vanishing of the ${\overline{\partial }}_b$-cohomology under small horizontal perturbations of the CR structure in compact abstract q-concave CR manifolds

Abstract

We consider perturbations of CR structures which preserve the complex tangent bundle. For a compact generic CR manifold its concavity properties and hence the finiteness of some ${\overline{\partial }}_b$-cohomology groups are also preserved by such perturbations of the CR structure. Here we study the stability of the vanishing of these groups.