The CR sphere's k-Yamabe classification conjecture

Let (S2n+1,θ^)(\Bbb{S}^{2n+1},\hat{\theta}) be the CR sphere of dimension 2n+12n+1, and let k1k\geq 1. A pseudohermitian structure θ~=e2uθ^[θ^]+\widetilde{\theta}=e^{2u}\hat{\theta}\in[\hat{\theta}]_{+} has constant pseudohermitian kk-curvature.

CR sphere k-Yamabe conjecture. If the pseudohermitian structure θ~=e2uθ^[θ^]+\widetilde{\theta}=e^{2u}\hat{\theta}\in[\hat{\theta}]_{+} has constant pseudohermitian kk-curvature, then θ~\widetilde{\theta} is equal to a multiple of the canonical form θ^\hat{\theta} by some CR-automorphism of S2n+1\Bbb{S}^{2n+1}.

This is an Obata-type classification result for the CR kk-Yamabe problem on the sphere. The statement is presented as an open question extending the known classification in the Cotton-admissible class.

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Ezequiel Barbosa, Luiz Gustavo Carneiro and Marcos Montenegro, “The k-Yamabe problem on CR manifolds”, arXiv:1205.1840 (2012).

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