Hermitian Forms Meet Several Complex Variables

Minicourse on CR Geometry Using Hermitian Forms

By: Jiří Lebl (website #1 https://www.jirka.org/ (personal), website #2 https://math.okstate.edu/people/lebl/ (work: OSU), email: )

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This free online textbook/classnotes is a half-semester mathematics graduate course in CR geometry using Hermitian forms. These are my class notes for Math 595 for the spring of 2010 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Several Complex Variables (SCV). Prerequisites are one variable complex analysis, linear algebra, real analysis and basic functional analysis. These notes are not meant as a complete introduction to SCV. In fact, they focus on one particular aspect of CR geometry. The focus is on geometry using Hermitian forms rather than analysis.

Some of the material has been used, in the self-contained introductory book Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables, which is meant as a full semester course the the basics of Several Complex Variables from a more traditional standpoint. But the focus on Hermitian forms is unique to this present set of notes, so the two should be complementary.

There are many proofs in the beginning sections about complex geometry that are left out due to lack of time in the course. Some material from the course did not make it into these notes and vice-versa.

There are most likely many typos and minor errors throughout (hopefully no major ones), so be wary. Do email me at with any errors that you find.

These notes may be modified and customized for a specific purpose if necessary. If you do modify these notes, make sure to mark them prominently as such to avoid confusion. This aspect is also important for longevity of the book. The book can be updated and modified even if I happen to drop off the face of the earth. You do not have to depend on any publisher being interested as with traditional textbooks.

Table of contents:

1. Complex Analytic Varieties
2. CR Geometry
3. Proper Mappings of Balls

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(July 23rd, 2020, 62 pages)

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Source:

The source is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/jirilebl/scv-mini.

During the writing of these notes, the author was in part supported by NSF grant DMS-0900885.

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