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In this paper, we give existence and multiplicity results for the problem of prescribing the Webster scalar curvature on the three CR sphere of \(\mathbb{C}^{2}\) under mixed conditions: non-degenerancy and flatness.
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Riahi, M., Gamara, N. The impact of the flatness condition on the prescribed Webster scalar curvature. Arab. J. Math. 2, 381–392 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40065-013-0080-3
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