Obstruction flat rigidity of the CR 3-sphere

We consider the obstruction flatness problem for small deformations of the standard CR 3-sphere. That rigidity holds for the CR sphere was previously known (in all dimensions) for the case of embeddable CR structures, where it also holds at the infinitesimal level. In the 3-dimensional case, however, a CR structure need not be embeddable. Unlike in the embeddable case, it turns out that in the nonembeddable case there is an infinite-dimensional space of solutions to the linearized obstruction flatness equation on the standard CR 3-sphere and this space defines a natural complement to the tangent space of the embeddable deformations. In spite of this, we show that the CR 3-sphere does not admit nontrivial obstruction flat deformations, embeddable or nonembeddable.

Absolute parallelism for 2-nondegenerate CR structures via bigraded Tanaka prolongation

This article is devoted to the local geometry of everywhere 2-nondegenerate CR manifolds M of hypersurface type. An absolute parallelism for such structures was recently constructed independently by Isaev and Zaitsev, Medori and Spiro, and Pocchiola in the minimal possible dimension ( dim ⁡ M = 5 {\dim M=5} ), and for dim ⁡ M = 7 {\dim M=7} in certain cases by the first author. In the present paper, we develop a bigraded (i.e., ℤ × ℤ {\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}} -graded) analog of Tanaka’s prolongation procedure to construct an absolute parallelism for these CR structures in arbitrary (odd) dimension with Levi kernel of arbitrary admissible dimension. We introduce the notion of a bigraded Tanaka symbol – a complex bigraded vector space – containing all essential information about the CR structure. Under the additional regularity assumption that the symbol is a Lie algebra, we define a bigraded analog of the Tanaka universal algebraic prolongation, endowed with an anti-linear involution, and prove that for any CR structure with a given regular symbol there exists a canonical absolute parallelism on a bundle whose dimension is that of the bigraded universal algebraic prolongation. Moreover, we show that for each regular symbol there is a unique (up to local equivalence) such CR structure whose algebra of infinitesimal symmetries has maximal possible dimension, and the latter algebra is isomorphic to the real part of the bigraded universal algebraic prolongation of the symbol. In the case of 1-dimensional Levi kernel we classify all regular symbols and calculate their bigraded universal algebraic prolongations. In this case, the regular symbols can be subdivided into nilpotent, strongly non-nilpotent, and weakly non-nilpotent. The bigraded universal algebraic prolongation of strongly non-nilpotent regular symbols is isomorphic to the complex orthogonal algebra 𝔰 ⁢ 𝔬 ⁢ ( m , ℂ ) {\mathfrak{so}(m,\mathbb{C})} , where m = 1 2 ⁢ ( dim ⁡ M + 5 ) {m=\tfrac{1}{2}(\dim M+5)} . Any real form of this algebra – except 𝔰 ⁢ 𝔬 ⁢ ( m ) {\mathfrak{so}(m)} and 𝔰 ⁢ 𝔬 ⁢ ( m - 1 , 1 ) {\mathfrak{so}(m-1,1)} – corresponds to the real part of the bigraded universal algebraic prolongation of exactly one strongly non-nilpotent regular CR symbol. However, for a fixed dim ⁡ M ≥ 7 {\dim M\geq 7} the dimension of the bigraded universal algebraic prolongations of all possible regular CR symbols achieves its maximum on one of the nilpotent regular symbols, and this maximal dimension is 1 4 ⁢ ( dim ⁡ M - 1 ) 2 + 7 {\frac{1}{4}(\dim M-1)^{2}+7} .

Modeling of plasmon resonance in periodic multilayer structures based on chromium with a surface island layer

The optical properties of Cr/Si/Cr and Cr/CrSi2 /Cr structures with periodically located chromium islands are modeled using the finite-difference time domain method. These structures are characterized by the phenomenon of plasmon resonance. The dependences of the intensity and position of the plasmon absorption peak on the thickness and radius of the islands are determined. It was observed that when the island thickness increases to 120 nm, the intensity of the absorption peak increases to 69 % for the Cr/Si/Cr structure and to 55 % for the Cr/CrSi2 /Cr structure. It was found that the peak of plasmon absorption in the spectrum of the Cr/Si/Cr structure is at a shorter wavelength (8.4 µm for Cr/Si/Cr, 11.1 µm for Cr/CrSi2/Cr), and also has a higher intensity (the share of absorbed radiation is 14 % higher compared to the peak of plasmon absorption in the spectrum of the Cr/CrSi2 /Cr structure). The obtained dependences indicate that the Cr/Si/Cr and Cr/CrSi2 /Cr structures can be used as IR detectors.

Partially integrable almost CR structures

Let (M, D) be a compact contact manifold with dim R M = 2n ≥ 5. This means that: M is a C ∞ differential manifold with dim R M = 2n ≥ 5. And D is a subbundle of the tangent bundle TM which satisfying; there is a real one form θ such that D = {X : X ∈ TM, θ(X) = 0}, and θ ^ Λ n−1(d ) ≠ 0 at every point of p of M. Especially, we assume that our D admits almost CR structure,(M, S). In this paper, inspired by the work of Matsumoto([M]), we study the difference of partially integrable almost CR structures from actual CR structures. And we discuss partially integrable almost CR structures from the point of view of the deformation theory of CR structures ([A1],[AGL]).