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We construct contact forms with constant $Q^\prime$-curvature on compact three-dimensional CR manifolds which admit a pseudo-Einstein contact form and satisfy some natural positivity conditions. These contact forms are obtained by minimizing the CR analogue of the $II$-functional from conformal geometry. Two crucial steps are to show that the $P^\prime$-operator can be regarded as an elliptic pseudodifferential operator and to compute the leading order terms of the asymptotic expansion of the Green function for $\sqrt{P^\prime}$.

Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold with Riemannian volume volg and f be a smooth function on M. A sharp upper bound estimate on the first eigenvalue of symmetric diffusion operator 􏰂 f = 􏰂 − ∇ f · ∇ was given by Wu (J Math Anal Appl 361:10–18, 2010) and Wang (Ann Glob Anal Geom 37:393–402, 2010) under a condition that finite dimensional Bakry–Émery Ricci curvature is bounded below, independently. They propounded an open problem is whether there is some rigidity on the estimate. In this note, we will solve this problem to obtain a splitting type theorem, which generalizes Li–Wang’s result in (J Differ Geom 58:501–534, 2001, J Differ Geom 62:143–162, 2002). For the case that infinite dimensional Bakry–Emery Ricci curvature of M is bounded below, we donotexpectanyupperboundestimateonthefirsteigenvalueof􏰂f withoutanyadditional assumption (see the example in Sect. 2). In this case, we will give a sharp upper bound estimate on the first eigenvalue of􏰂f under the additional assuption that |∇f| is bounded.We also obtain the rigidity result on this estimate, as another Li–Wang type splitting theorem.

We describe a general geometrical construction of representations of fundamental groups of 3-manifolds into PU(2, 1) and eventually of spherical CR structures defined on those 3-manifolds. We construct branched spherical CR structures on the complement of the figure eight knot and the Whitehead link. They have discrete holonomies contained in PU(2, 1,Z[ω]) and PU(2, 1,Z[i]) respectively.

Let (M, !) be a compact symplectic manifold, and L a compact embedded Lagrangian submanifold in M. Fukaya, Oh, Ohta and Ono [8] construct Lagrangian Floer cohomology, yielding groups HF(L, b;nov) for one or HF􀀀 (L1, b1), (L2, b2);nov
for two Lagrangians, where b, b1, b2 are choices of bounding cochains, and exist if and only if L,L1,L2 have unobstructed Floer cohomology. These are independent of choices up to isomorphism, and have important invariance properties under Hamiltonian equivalence. Floer cohomology groups are the morphism groups in the derived Fukaya category of (M, !), and so are an essential part of the Homological Mirror Symmetry Conjecture of Kontsevich. The goal of this paper is to extend [8] to immersed Lagrangians  : L ! M, with transverse self-intersections. In the embedded case, Floer cohomology HF(L, b;nov) is a modified, ‘quantized’ version of singular homology Hn−(L;nov) over the Novikov ring nov. In our immersed case, HF(L, b;nov) turns out to be a quantized version of Hn−(L;nov)  L (p−,p+)2R nov · (p−, p+), where R =  (p−, p+) : p−, p+ 2 L, p− 6= p+, (p−) = (p+) is a set of two extra generators for each self-intersection point of L, and (p−, p+) has degree (p−,p+) 2 Z, an index depending on how L intersects itself at (p−) = (p+). The theory becomes simpler and more powerful for graded Lagrangians in Calabi–Yau manifolds, when we can work over a smaller Novikov ring CY. The proofs involve associating a gapped filtered A1 algebra over 0 nov or 0 CY to  : L ! M, which is independent of nearly all choices up to canonical homotopy equivalence, and is built using a series of finite approximations called AN,0 algebras for N = 0, 1, 2, . . ..