The li-yau-hamilton inequality for yamabe flow on a closed CR 3-Manifold
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, 362(4), 1681-1698
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Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
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362
Journal Issue
4
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1681-1698
Date Issued
2010
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We deform the contact form by the (normalized) CR Yamabe flow on a closed spherical CR 3 3 -manifold. We show that if a contact form evolves with positive Tanaka-Webster curvature and vanishing torsion from initial data, then we obtain a new Li-Yau-Hamilton inequality for the CR Yamabe flow. By combining this parabolic subgradient estimate with a compactness theorem of a sequence of contact forms, it follows that the CR Yamabe flow exists for all time and converges smoothly to, up to the CR automorphism, a unique limit contact form of positive constant Webster scalar curvature on a closed CR 3 3 -manifold, which is CR equivalent to the standard CR 3 3 -sphere with positive Tanaka-Webster curvature and vanishing torsion.
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