The Schwarzian derivative and Möbius equation on strictly pseudo-convex CR manifolds

Abstract

The notion of Schwarzian derivative for locally univalent holomorphic functions on complex plane was generalized for conformal diffeomorphisms by Osgood and Stowe in 1992 [27]. We shall identify a tensor that may serve as an analogue of the Schwarzian of Osgood and Stowe for CR mappings, and then use the tensor to define and study the CR Möbius transformations and metrics of pseudo-hermitian manifolds. We shall establish basic properties of the CR Schwarzian and a local characterization of CR spherical manifolds in terms of fully integrability of the CR Möbius equation. In another direction, we shall prove two rigidity results for Möbius change of metrics on compact CR manifolds.

arXiv comment27 pages, typos corrected, accepted to Comm. Anal. Geom

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