On the symmetry algebras of 5-dimensional CR-manifolds

Abstract

We show that for a real-analytic connected holomorphically nondegenerate 5-dimensional CR-hypersurface <i>M</i> and its symmetry algebra <i>s</i> one has either: (i) dim <i>s</i> = 15 and <i>M</i> is spherical (with Levi form of signature either (2,0), or (1,1), everywhere), or (ii) dim <i>s</i> ≤ 11 where dim <i>s</i> = 11 can only occur if on a dense open subset <i>M</i> is spherical with Levi form of signature (1,1). Furthermore, we construct a series of examples of pairwise nonequivalent CR-hypersurfaces with dim <i>s</i> = 11.