Engel CR submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^3$

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Main Authors: Fernández, Eduardo, del Pino, Álvaro, Zhou, Wei
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author Fernández, Eduardo
del Pino, Álvaro
Zhou, Wei
author_facet Fernández, Eduardo
del Pino, Álvaro
Zhou, Wei
contents We give a sufficient condition for an $\mathbb{S}^1$-bundle over a $3$-manifold to admit an immersion (or embedding) into $\mathbb{C}^3$ so that its complex tangencies define an Engel structure. In particular, every oriented $\mathbb{S}^1$-bundle over a closed, oriented $3$-manifold admits such an immersion. If the bundle is trivial, this immersion can be chosen to be an embedding and, moreover, infinitely many pairwise smoothly non-isotopic embeddings of this type can be constructed. These are the first examples of compact submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^3$ whose complex tangencies are Engel, answering a question of Y. Eliashberg.
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spellingShingle Engel CR submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^3$
Fernández, Eduardo
del Pino, Álvaro
Zhou, Wei
Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
We give a sufficient condition for an $\mathbb{S}^1$-bundle over a $3$-manifold to admit an immersion (or embedding) into $\mathbb{C}^3$ so that its complex tangencies define an Engel structure. In particular, every oriented $\mathbb{S}^1$-bundle over a closed, oriented $3$-manifold admits such an immersion. If the bundle is trivial, this immersion can be chosen to be an embedding and, moreover, infinitely many pairwise smoothly non-isotopic embeddings of this type can be constructed. These are the first examples of compact submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^3$ whose complex tangencies are Engel, answering a question of Y. Eliashberg.
title Engel CR submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^3$
topic Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11488