Normal forms for CR singular codimension two Levi-flat submanifolds
Abstract: Real-analytic Levi-flat codimension two CR singular submanifolds are a natural generalization to ${\mathbb{C}}m$, $m > 2$, of Bishop surfaces in ${\mathbb{C}}2$. 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 $z_m=\bar{z}_1z_2+\bar{z}_12$, 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 ${\mathbb{C}}3$ in the nondegenerate case that shows infinitely many formal invariants.
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