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A Positive Mass Theorem in Three Dimensional Cauchy–Riemann Geometry

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Extended Abstracts Fall 2013

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In this note we summarize the results from [6] on the positive mass problem in 3-dimensional CR (Cauchy–Riemann) geometry.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jih-Hsin Cheng

  2. Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Andrea Malchiodi

  3. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Paul Yang

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  1. Jih-Hsin Cheng
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Maria del Mar González

  2. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Paul C. Yang

  3. School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Nicola Gambino

  4. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Joachim Kock

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Cheng, JH., Malchiodi, A., Yang, P. (2015). A Positive Mass Theorem in Three Dimensional Cauchy–Riemann Geometry. In: González, M., Yang, P., Gambino, N., Kock, J. (eds) Extended Abstracts Fall 2013. Trends in Mathematics(). Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21284-5_1

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