On the symmetry algebras of 5-dimensional CR-manifolds

Abstract

We show that for a real-analytic connected holomorphically nondegenerate 5-dimensional CR-hypersurface $M$ and its symmetry algebra $\mathfrak{s}$ one has either: (i) $\dim \mathfrak{s}=15$ and $M$ is spherical (with Levi form of signature either $(2,0)$ or $(1,1)$ everywhere), or (ii) $\dim \mathfrak{s}\le 11$ where $\dim \mathfrak{s}=11$ can only occur if on a dense open subset $M$ is spherical with Levi form of signature $(1,1)$. Furthermore, we construct a series of examples of pairwise nonequivalent CR-hypersurfaces with $\dim \mathfrak{s}=11$.

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