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On any compact toric contact manifold of Reeb type, there are T-invariant CR structures whose CR Yamabe invariants take negative values, and when the manifold is transversally Fano they take all three signs.

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arxiv 2607.27441 v1 pith:KPQEWB2T submitted 2026-07-29 math.DG

The toric CR Yamabe problem

classification math.DG MSC 53C2558E1153C1832Q1553D1032V20
keywords CR Yamabe problemtoric Sasaki manifoldsTanaka-Webster scalar curvatureEinstein-Hilbert functionalsymplectic potentialsmoment polytopeequivariant Yamabe invariant
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The paper studies the torus-equivariant CR Yamabe problem on compact co-oriented contact manifolds that carry a fixed-point-free torus action of Reeb type. In the toric case the problem reduces to a boundary-value elliptic PDE for a pair of functions on the moment polytope: a normalised symplectic potential that encodes the CR structure and a positive conformal factor. By evaluating a reduced Einstein–Hilbert energy along explicit paths of potentials, the authors prove that the equivariant CR Yamabe energy can be driven to minus infinity or to non-positive values. Consequently every such manifold admits a T-invariant CR structure with negative Yamabe invariant, and every transversally Fano example admits structures with negative, zero and positive invariants. The same reduction supplies many explicit constant Tanaka–Webster curvature examples and shows that constant-scalar-curvature Sasaki structures sit at the boundary of the convex hull of constant-curvature conformal structures.

Core claim

For any compact toric contact manifold of Reeb type the T-equivariant CR Yamabe problem is equivalent to an elliptic boundary-value problem on the moment polytope. Along paths of symplectic potentials that become singular or go to infinity, the reduced Einstein–Hilbert energy tends to non-positive values or to minus infinity, so the manifold always carries T-invariant CR structures of negative CR Yamabe invariant; when it is transversally Fano it also carries structures of zero and positive invariant.

What carries the argument

The reduced CR Einstein–Hilbert functional EH(φ,f) = (2∫_∂P f^{-n} dσ + n∫_P f^{-n-1} ⟨H_φ, Hess f⟩ dx) / (∫_P f^{-n-1} dx)^{n/(n+1)}, defined on pairs of a normalised symplectic potential φ and a positive function f on the moment polytope P; its critical points are precisely the T-invariant constant Tanaka–Webster structures, and its limiting behaviour along paths of potentials controls the sign of the equivariant Yamabe energy.

Load-bearing premise

In higher dimensions the energy is proved to go to minus infinity only when the Hessian of the limiting potential vanishes to order strictly higher than the dimension of the polytope along a hyperplane through an interior point; without that quantitative vanishing the integral against the test function need not diverge.

What would settle it

Construct an explicit path of symplectic potentials on a polytope of dimension greater than one whose Hessian vanishes only to order n−1 or lower at an interior degeneracy, and check whether the reduced energy still tends to minus infinity; if it remains bounded the case-2 claim fails.

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  • Every compact toric contact manifold of Reeb type admits a T-invariant CR structure with negative CR Yamabe invariant.
  • Every transversally Fano toric contact manifold admits T-invariant CR structures realising all three signs of the CR Yamabe invariant.
  • Constant-scalar-curvature Sasaki structures cannot lie in the interior of the convex hull of constant Tanaka–Webster structures in the same conformal class.
  • The equivariant Yamabe energy is controlled by a simpler functional I(f) on concave positive functions on the polytope, linking it to K-stability of the toric Sasaki manifold.
  • Explicit non-Sasaki constant Tanaka–Webster examples exist that are not absolute minimisers of the Einstein–Hilbert energy in their T-invariant conformal class.

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  • The same polytope reduction should let one decide whether a constant-scalar-curvature Sasaki metric that realises the global minimum of the Einstein–Hilbert energy on the Reeb cone is automatically a T-invariant CR Yamabe minimiser in its conformal class.
  • Extending the energy continuously to weakly convex or piecewise-linear potentials would turn the question of the sign of the toric CR Yamabe invariant into a purely convex-geometric problem on the moment polytope.
  • The appearance of both signs on a fixed contact structure suggests that the ordinary (non-equivariant) CR Yamabe invariant may also change sign under deformation of the CR structure, even without torus symmetry.

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Summary. The paper studies the T-equivariant CR Yamabe problem on compact co-oriented contact manifolds of Reeb type carrying a fixed-point-free torus action of maximal dimension. Using the Guillemin–Abreu–Martelli–Sparks–Yau dictionary, the authors reduce T-invariant constant Tanaka–Webster scalar curvature to a nonlinear elliptic boundary-value problem (Prop. 1.2 / Eq. (2)) for a pair (symplectic potential φ, conformal factor f) on the labelled moment polytope P. They derive an explicit formula for the reduced Einstein–Hilbert functional EH(φ,f) and prove (Thm. 1.4) that along paths of normalised symplectic potentials that either escape to infinity with strictly convex leading term or hit a controlled degeneracy of the Hessian, the equivariant CR Yamabe energy Y^T_CR tends to a non-positive value or to −∞ respectively. Corollaries assert that every such contact toric manifold admits a T-invariant CR structure of negative Yamabe invariant, and that transversally Fano ones realise all three signs. Further results include a convex-hull obstruction for cscS structures (Prop. 1.8), an extension of EH to piecewise-linear geodesic ribbons via an action functional (Prop. 1.7 / §5), and a collection of explicit cscTW and sign-changing examples (§6).

Significance. The work supplies the first systematic dimensional reduction of the equivariant CR Yamabe problem in the toric setting and gives concrete, computable control on the sign of Y^T_CR. The answer to the question of Sung–Takeuchi on the existence of compatible CR structures of both positive and negative Yamabe invariant on a fixed contact structure is of clear interest. The reduced functional I(f) and its link to toric K-stability (Question 5.3) open a natural bridge between CR Yamabe theory and the existing Donaldson–Futaki / weighted cscK literature. The explicit non-Sasaki cscTW examples on the trivial Hirzebruch surface and the sign-changing deformations in §§6.1–6.3 are useful concrete data. The core analytic arguments (test-function estimates with piecewise-linear creases and radial powers) are standard and transparent once the toric dictionary is in place.

major comments (2)
  1. [Theorem 1.4 (Case 2), Corollary 1.5, Lemma 4.1 / Corollary 4.2] Corollary 1.5 asserts existence of a T-invariant CR structure with Y^T_CR < 0 in every dimension, yet Case 2 of Theorem 1.4 requires the quantitative vanishing-order hypothesis α > n−1 on ⟨v_T, (Hess φ_T) v_T⟩ along the crease (Lemma 4.1 / Cor. 4.2). The paper only remarks that the condition is automatic when dim N = 3. An explicit construction (or a short existence argument) of paths in S_o(P) that realise this order in all dimensions is needed for the corollary to hold as stated; without it the higher-dimensional claim rests on an unverified hypothesis.
  2. [Corollary 1.6, §1.1] Corollary 1.6 claims the existence of a T-invariant CR structure with Y^T_CR = 0 on every transversally Fano toric contact manifold. Positive sign follows from the Sasaki–Einstein metric (FOW09) together with CR-Obata uniqueness; negative sign follows from Cor. 1.5. The zero value is not constructed and is not justified by an intermediate-value argument: the paper does not establish continuity of the map φ ↦ Y^T_CR(φ) on S_o(P) (or on any path connecting a positive structure to a negative one). Either a continuity statement or an explicit zero-energy example should be supplied.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Proposition 1.2] Proposition 1.2: the phrase “the value of the of Tanaka-Webster scalar curvature” contains a duplicated article; also the constant C should be identified with the value of EH up to the usual positive normalisation factor already used later in the text.
  2. [Figure 1 (§4)] Figure 1 is a helpful schematic but the regions labelled Y_CR ≤ 0 / ≥ 0 / < 0 are not rigorously delimited by the theorems; a caption clarifying that the figure is only heuristic would avoid over-interpretation.
  3. [Throughout] Several typographical artefacts appear in the extracted text (“T oric”, “Y amabe”, “W e will use”, stray spaces in section headings). A careful proof-reading pass is recommended before final submission.
  4. [§5, equations (16)–(17)] In §5 the passage from the smooth action functional A^χ_s(t) to the singular Monge–Ampère expression (17) invokes Rudin’s theorems on Lebesgue decomposition; a one-sentence reminder that the singular part of MA(φ_∞) is supported on the crease set (hence has vanishing Radon–Nikodym derivative) would make the justification self-contained.
  5. [Question 1.9, §6.2.3] Question 1.9 is well-motivated by the examples of §6.2 and §6.4; it would help the reader if the authors briefly indicated whether any of the explicit non-Sasaki cscTW solutions constructed in §6.2.3 could serve as counter-examples once the EH = EH_min hypothesis is dropped (they already show they are not absolute minimisers).

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No significant circularity: sign limits of the toric CR Yamabe energy are direct test-function estimates on a reduced Einstein–Hilbert functional.

full rationale

The load-bearing claims (Theorem 1.4 and Corollaries 1.5–1.6) are obtained by writing the T-invariant Einstein–Hilbert functional in action-angle coordinates via the Abreu formula and the standard integration-by-parts identity on the Delzant polytope, then evaluating it on explicit test functions (piecewise-linear creases for degenerating paths; radial powers for paths to infinity). The resulting limits ≤0 and −∞ are elementary integral estimates; they do not encode the conclusion in a normalization, fit, or uniqueness theorem. Positive Yamabe sign for transversally Fano examples uses the external Futaki–Ono–Wang existence of Sasaki–Einstein metrics, not a self-referential uniqueness import. Self-citations (LLS23/25, BHLTF, Leg11, ACMY24) supply background dictionary and variational characterizations whose statements are independent of the new sign theorems. No step reduces a claimed prediction to a fitted input or to a definition that already contains the result.

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The paper is pure mathematics. Load-bearing input is standard CR/Sasaki/toric geometry plus a few analytic lemmas; no empirical free parameters. The only extra structural hypothesis that is not automatic is the vanishing-order condition in higher-dimensional case 2 of Theorem 1.4.

axioms (7)
  • domain assumption Classification of compact contact toric manifolds of Reeb type by good strictly convex moment cones (Lerman, BM93, BG00).
    Used throughout §2 to identify (N,D,T) with a labeled polytope P_ξ.
  • domain assumption Guillemin–Abreu–Martelli–Sparks–Yau correspondence: toric Sasaki structures ↔ symplectic potentials with prescribed boundary singularities (Prop. 2.3–2.4).
    Defines the space S(P) and the matrix H = (Hess φ)^{-1} on which all curvature formulas rest.
  • domain assumption Abreu formula for transversal/Tanaka–Webster scalar curvature Scal_TW = −(H^{ij})_{,ij} and its conformal transformation law (6).
    Starting point for the cscTW PDE (7) and the reduced EH functional (9).
  • standard math Integration-by-parts identity ∫_P ψ_1 (H^{ij} ψ_0)_{ij} dx = −2∫_∂P ψ_1 ψ_0 dσ + ∫_P ψ_0 ⟨H,Hess ψ_1⟩ dx (Don02, AM19).
    Lemma 3.2; converts total scalar curvature into boundary + Hessian terms.
  • domain assumption Existence of T-invariant cscTW structures (Zhang 2009; Ho 2025 equivariant CR Yamabe).
    Cited in §1.2 to note that existence is already known; the paper’s contribution is the sign analysis and dictionary, not bare existence.
  • domain assumption Transversally Fano toric Sasaki manifolds admit Sasaki–Einstein metrics (Futaki–Ono–Wang 2009).
    Supplies the positive Yamabe side of Corollary 1.6.
  • ad hoc to paper Case-2 vanishing-order hypothesis: ⟨v_T, Hess φ_T v_T⟩ = O(|x−x_T|^α) with α>n−1 along the crease.
    Extra assumption needed for lim Y_CR = −∞ when dim P>1; automatic only for dim N=3.
invented entities (2)
  • Reduced functional I(f) = 2∫_∂P f^{-n} dσ / (∫_P f^{-n-1} dx)^{n/(n+1)} no independent evidence
    purpose: Governs the limiting CR Einstein–Hilbert energy along infinite geodesic ribbons and piecewise-linear test configurations; proposed as the object whose infimum over concave f equals the toric CR Yamabe invariant (Question 5.3).
    Defined in (15) and Prop. 5.1 from the action functional; mathematical construction, not a physical entity.
  • Action functional A^χ_s(t) along toric geodesic ribbons no independent evidence
    purpose: Extends EH to non-smooth piecewise-linear symplectic potentials via ∂_t A, recovering I(f_s).
    Introduced in §5 following LLS23/25; used to prove Prop. 1.7.

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We study the equivariant CR Yamabe problem for a fixed-point-free torus action on a co-oriented compact contact manifold. Such examples arise naturally in the study of Sasakian manifolds with constant scalar curvature. In the toric case, we show that this problem is equivalent to a kind of boundary value problem for an elliptic PDE on a pair of functions defined on a convex, polyhedral domain. We provide examples of solutions and prove that many contact toric manifolds admit compatible CR structures with distinct signs of CR Yamabe invariants.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Paths in the space of symplectic potentials S(P) ⊂ C ∞(P ◦ ) and behaviour of the CR Yamabe function. Theorem 3.7. [[ACMY24, LLS23]] The critical points of EH(φ, f) are characterised by the con￾ditions ( ScalTW(φ, f) = const. Hess(f) = 0. In other words, the critical points are Sasaki structures of constant transversal scalar curvature. 4. The toric CR Yamabe energy In this Section, we prove Theorem 1.4. A… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Graph of EH(cA, cB) when p = 6 and q = 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Graph of EH(c) when p = 6 and q = 1. • For q > 5p, EHmin = ( 432(p−q) 2 q 2p ) 1/3 . Example 6.2. Suppose p = 6 and q = 1. Then EHmin = (300)1/3 ≈ 6.694. Let A(x) = p 2−x 2 p = 36−x 2 6 and B(y) = q 2−y 2 q = 1−y 2 and consider the corresponding Sasaki contact form η. Evidently, from above we know that η, despite being cscS, is NOT a minimizer of EH over t+, much less over [η] T 2 . As observed in [LLS25],… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Graph of EH(c) when x = 8/10. where g(c) = 24 − 9x − 4x 2 + 12x 3 + 4x 4 − 3x 5 − 8x(5 − 2x 2 + x 4 )c + 2(2 + 3x − 12x 2 − 4x 3 + 2x 4 + x 5 )c 2 + 16x(1 + x 2 )c 3 − (4 − 3x + 4x 2 + 4x 3 − x 5 )c 4 . [As expected EH′ (c) = 0 is equivalent to (31) for s = −3 and a = 3(x 4+7) (1−x2)(3−x2) .] For x = 8/10, we have that EH(c) = 8 5 q 2 15 16437 − 4594c 4 + 16400c 3 − 6533c 2 − 20648c  177(1 − c 2) 4/5 (15 … view at source ↗

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