by Li Cheung Shing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Bibliography: leaves 111-115. / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1 --- "Real hypersurfaces,CR manifolds and the imbedding problem" --- p.5 / Chapter § 1.1 --- Non-equivalence of real analytic hypersurfaces in C2 --- p.5 / Chapter § 1.2 --- The Lewy operator --- p.8 / Chapter § 1.3 --- CR manifolds --- p.19 / Chapter § 1.4 --- Imbedding of CR manifolds --- p.24 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Geometry of the real hyperquadric --- p.30 / Chapter § 2.1 --- The real hyperquadric --- p.30 / Chapter § 2.2 --- Q-frames --- p.31 / Chapter § 2.3 --- Maurer Cartan forms --- p.33 / Chapter § 2.4 --- Structural equations and chains --- p.36 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Moser normal form --- p.40 / Chapter § 3.1 --- Formal theory of the normal form --- p.40 / Chapter § 3.2 --- Geometric theory of the normal form --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Cartan-Chern invariants and pseudohermitian geometry --- p.67 / Chapter §4.1 --- Cartan's solution of the equivalence problem --- p.67 / Chapter § 4.2 --- Chern's construction in higher dimensions --- p.69 / Chapter §4.3 --- Webster's invariants for pseudohermitian manifolds --- p.72 / Chapter § 4.4 --- Geometric interpretation of Webster's invariants --- p.76 / Chapter § 4.5 --- Applications --- p.80 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Fefferman metric --- p.86 / Chapter § 5.1 --- Differential geometry on the boundary --- p.86 / Chapter § 5.2 --- Computations --- p.93 / Chapter §5.3 --- An example of spiral chains --- p.103 / References --- p.111
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_318743 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Contributors | Li, Cheung Shing., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Mathematics. |
| Publisher | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, 115 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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