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By constructing normal coordinates on a quaternionic contact manifold M, we can osculate the quaternionic contact structure at each point by the standard quaternionic contact structure on the quaternionic Heisenberg group. By using this property, we can do harmonic analysis on general quaternionic contact manifolds, and solve the quaternionic contact Yamabe problem on M if its Yamabe invariant satisfies λ(M) < λ(ℍ n).
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 53C17, 53D10, 35J70
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Wang, W. The Yamabe problem on quaternionic contact manifolds. Annali di Matematica 186, 359–380 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-006-0010-5
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