RESULTS RELATED TO PRESCRIBING PSEUDO-HERMITIAN SCALAR CURVATURE

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing pseudo-Hermitian scalar curvature on a compact strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold M. Using geometric flow, we prove that for any negative smooth function f we can prescribe the pseudo-Hermitian scalar curvature to be f, provided that dim M = 3 and the CR Yamabe invariant of M is negative. On the other hand, we establish some uniqueness and non-uniqueness results on prescribing pseudo-Hermitian scalar curvature.