Approximately Einstein ACH metrics, volume renormalization, and an invariant for contact manifolds

Details Approximately Einstein ACH metrics, volume renormalization, and an invariant for contact manifolds Approximately Einstein ACH metrics, volume renormalization, and an invariant for contact manifolds

2007-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/0707.0597v2

Bull. Soc. Math. France 137 (2009) 63--91

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To any smooth compact manifold $M$ endowed with a contact structure $H$ and partially integrable almost CR structure $J$, we prove the existence and uniqueness, modulo high-order error terms and diffeomorphism action, of an approximately Einstein ACH (asymptotically complex hyperbolic) metric $g$ on $M\times (-1,0)$. We consider the asymptotic expansion, in powers of a special defining function, of the volume of $M\times (-1,0)$ with respect to $g$ and prove that the log term coefficient is independent of $J$ (and any choice of contact form $\theta$), i.e., is an invariant of the contact structure $H$. The approximately Einstein ACH metric $g$ is a generalisation of, and exhibits similar asymptotic boundary behaviour to, Fefferman's approximately Einstein complete K\"ahler metric $g_+$ on strictly pseudoconvex domains. The present work demonstrates that the CR-invariant log term coefficient in the asymptotic volume expansion of $g_+$ is in fact a contact invariant. We discuss some implications this may have for CR $Q$-curvature. The formal power series method of finding $g$ is obstructed at finite order. We show that part of this obstruction is given as a one-form on $H^*$. This is a new result peculiar to the partially integrable setting.

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