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Wild holomorphic foliations of the ball

Complex Variables 2025-09-04 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the open unit ball Bn\mathbb{B}_n of Cn\mathbb{C}^n (n2)(n\ge 2) admits a nonsingular holomorphic foliation F\mathcal F by closed complex hypersurfaces such that both the union of the complete leaves of F\mathcal F and the union of the incomplete leaves of F\mathcal F are dense subsets of Bn\mathbb{B}_n. In particular, every leaf of F\mathcal F is both a limit of complete leaves of F\mathcal F and a limit of incomplete leaves of F\mathcal F. This gives the first example of a holomorphic foliation of Bn\mathbb{B}_n by connected closed complex hypersurfaces having a complete leaf that is a limit of incomplete ones. We obtain an analogous result for foliations by complex submanifolds of arbitrary pure codimension qq with 1q<n1\le q<n.

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@article{arxiv.2106.04950,
  title  = {Wild holomorphic foliations of the ball},
  author = {Antonio Alarcon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04950},
  year   = {2025}
}

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To appear in Indiana Univ. Math. J