“…Simultaneously, the infinity of such manifolds, that is the spherical CauchyRiemannian manifolds furnish the simplest examples of manifolds with contact structures. Second, such manifolds provide simplest examples of negatively curved manifolds not having constant sectional curvature, and already obtained results show surprising differences between geometry and topology of such manifolds and corresponding properties of (real hyperbolic) manifolds with constant negative curvature, see [BS,BuM,EMM,Go1,GM,Min,Yu1]. Third, such manifolds occupy a remarkable place among rank-one symmetric spaces in the sense of their deformations: they enjoy the flexibility of low dimensional real hyperbolic manifolds (see [Th,A1,A2] and §7) as well as the rigidity of quaternionic/octionic hyperbolic manifolds and higher-rank locally symmetric spaces [MG1,Co2,P].…”