A complete normal form for everywhere Levi-degenerate hypersurfaces in C-3

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KOLÁŘ Martin KOSSOVSKIY Ilja

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Advances in Mathematics
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Faculty of Science

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2022.108590
Keywords CR-manifolds; Normal forms; Automorphism group; Holomorphic mappings
Description 2-nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in complex manifolds play an important role in CR-geometry and the theory of Hermitian Symmetric Domains. In this paper, we obtain a complete convergent normal form for everywhere 2-nondegenerate real-analytic hypersurfaces in complex 3-space. We do so by entirely reproducing the Chern-Moser theory in the 2-nondegenerate setting. This seems to be the first such construction for hypersurfaces of infinite Catlin multitype. We in particular discover chains in an everywhere 2-nondegenerate hypersurface, the tangent lines to which at a point form the so-called canonical cone. Our approach is based on using a rational (nonpolynomial) model for everywhere 2-nondegenerate hypersurfaces, which is the local realization due to Fels-Kaup of the well known tube over the light cone. For the convergence of the normal form, we use an argument due to Zaitsev, based on building a canonical direction field in an appropriate bundle over a hypersurface. 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 2-nondegenerate hypersurface in terms of its normal form. As another application, we obtain an explicit description of the moduli space of everywhere 2-nondegenerate hypersurfaces.
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