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A complete normal form for everywhere Levi degenerate hypersurfaces in $\mathbb C^{3}$

Complex Variables 2025-01-24 v3

Abstract

22-nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in complex manifolds play an important role in CR-geometry and the theory of Hermitian Symmetric Domains. In this paper, we construct a complete convergent normal form for everywhere 22-nondegenerate real-analytic hypersurfaces in complex 33-space. We do so by developing the homological approach of Chern-Moser in the 22-nondegenerate setting. This seems to be the first such construction for hypersurfaces of infinite Catlin multitype. Our approach is based on using a rational (nonpolynomial) model for everywhere 22-nondegenerate hypersurfaces, which is the local realization due to Fels-Kaup of the well known tube over the light cone. As an application, we obtain, in the spirit of Chern-Moser theory, a criterion for the local sphericity (i.e. local equivalence to the model) for a 22-nondegenerate hypersurface in terms of its normal form. As another application, we obtain an explicit description of the moduli space of everywhere 22-nondegenerate hypersurfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05629,
  title  = {A complete normal form for everywhere Levi degenerate hypersurfaces in $\mathbb C^{3}$},
  author = {Martin Kolar and Ilya Kossovskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05629},
  year   = {2025}
}
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