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Normal forms for CR singular codimension two Levi-flat submanifolds

Complex Variables 2015-04-22 v2

Abstract

Real-analytic Levi-flat codimension two CR singular submanifolds are a natural generalization to Cm{\mathbb{C}}^m, m>2m > 2, of Bishop surfaces in C2{\mathbb{C}}^2. Such submanifolds for example arise as zero sets of mixed-holomorphic equations with one variable antiholomorphic. We classify the codimension two Levi-flat CR singular quadrics, and we notice that new types of submanifolds arise in dimension 3 or greater. In fact, the nondegenerate submanifolds, i.e. higher order purturbations of zm=zˉ1z2+zˉ12z_m=\bar{z}_1z_2+\bar{z}_1^2, have no analogue in dimension 2. We prove that the Levi-foliation extends through the singularity in the real-analytic nondegenerate case. Furthermore, we prove that the quadric is a (convergent) normal form for a natural large class of such submanifolds, and we compute its automorphism group. In general, we find a formal normal form in C3{\mathbb{C}}^3 in the nondegenerate case that shows infinitely many formal invariants.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1403.0558,
  title  = {Normal forms for CR singular codimension two Levi-flat submanifolds},
  author = {Xianghong Gong and Jiri Lebl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.0558},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

41 pages, accepted to Pacific Journal of Mathematics

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