Weyl connections and curvature properties of CR manifolds (Q1876580)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2093689
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Weyl connections and curvature properties of CR manifolds
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2093689

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    Weyl connections and curvature properties of CR manifolds (English)
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    20 August 2004
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    The author considers strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds \(M\) of the hypersurface type. Denoting by \(H\) the analytic tangent bundle of \(M\), she defines a Weyl connection on \(M\) as a connection \(D\) on the line bundle \(TM/H\). She proves that to such a \(D\) one can associate in a unique way an affine connection \(\nabla\) on \(TM\), yielding for an exact \(D\) the one defined by \textit{N.Tanaka} in [A differential geometric study on strongly pseudo-convex manifolds (1975; Zbl 0331.53025)]. This construction simplifies the definition of the Chern-Moser tensor on \(M\) and makes clearer its connection with the Bochner tensor for a Sasakian CR manifold.
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    Tanaka and Weyl connections
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    strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds
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    hypersurface type
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