On the CR analogue of Frankel conjecture and a smooth representative of the first Kohn-Rossi cohomology group

Abstract

In this note, we first give a criterion of pseudo-Einstein contact forms and then affirm the CR analogue of Frankel conjecture in a closed, spherical, strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold of nonnegative pseudohermitian curvature on the space of smooth representatives of the first Kohn-Rossi cohomology group. Moreover, we obtain the CR Frankel conjecture in a closed, spherical, strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold with the vanishing first Kohn-Rossi cohomology group. In particular, this conjecture holds in a spherical boundary of the Stein manifold.