Heisenberg quasiregular ellipticity

  • Katrin Fässler

    University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Anton Lukyanenko

    George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
  • Jeremy T. Tyson

    University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
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Abstract

Following the Euclidean results of Varopoulos and Pankka–Rajala, we provide a necessary topological condition for a sub-Riemannian 3-manifold to admit a nonconstant quasiregular mapping from the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group . As an application, we show that a link complement has a sub-Riemannian metric admitting such a mapping only if is empty, an unknot or Hopf link. In the converse direction, if is empty, a specific unknot or Hopf link, we construct a quasiregular mapping from to .

The main result is obtained by translating a growth condition on into the existence of a supersolution to the 4-harmonic equation, and relies on recent advances in the study of analysis and potential theory on metric spaces.

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Katrin Fässler, Anton Lukyanenko, Jeremy T. Tyson, Heisenberg quasiregular ellipticity. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 35 (2019), no. 2, pp. 471–520

DOI 10.4171/RMI/1060