Blow-ups and infinitesimal automorphisms of CR-manifolds

Abstract

AbstractFor a real-analytic connected CR-hypersurface M of CR-dimension $$n\geqslant 1$$ n ⩾ 1 having a point of Levi-nondegeneracy the following alternative is demonstrated for its symmetry algebra $$\mathfrak {s}={\mathfrak {s}}(M)$$ s = s ( M ) : (i) either $$\dim {\mathfrak {s}}=n^2+4n+3$$ dim s = n 2 + 4 n + 3 and M is spherical everywhere; (ii) or $$\dim {\mathfrak {s}}\leqslant n^2+2n+2+\delta _{2,n}$$ dim s ⩽ n 2 + 2 n + 2 + δ 2 , n and in the case of equality M is spherical and has fixed signature of the Levi form in the complement to its Levi-degeneracy locus. A version of this result is proved for the Lie group of global automorphisms of M. Explicit examples of CR-hypersurfaces and their infinitesimal and global automorphisms realizing the bound in (ii) are constructed. We provide many other models with large symmetry using the technique of blow-up, in particular we realize all maximal parabolic subalgebras of the pseudo-unitary algebras as a symmetry.