Hirachi's decomposition conjecture for pseudohermitian scalar invariants

Let II be a natural pseudohermitian scalar invariant whose total integral is a secondary CR invariant. Here, a secondary CR invariant is a total integral invariant under changes of pseudohermitian contact form. Hirachi's conjecture. There is a constant cRc\in\mathbb{R} such that

I=cQ+(local CR invariant)+(divergence).I=cQ^\prime+\text{(local CR invariant)}+\text{(divergence)}.

The conjecture is an analogue in CR geometry of the decomposition result for conformal scalar invariants, with the total QQ^\prime-curvature playing the role of total QQ-curvature. It is false in CR dimension n=2n=2, so the proposed decomposition does not hold in the stated generality.

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Jeffrey S. Case and Yuya Takeuchi, “I^-curvatures in higher dimensions and the Hirachi conjecture”, arXiv:2003.08201 (2020).

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