Holomorphic immersions of bi-disks into 9-dimensional real hypersurfaces with Levi signature (2, 2)

Wei-Guo Foo (1) , Joël Merker (2)

1 Hua Loo-Keng Center for Mathematical Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Chin
2 LMO - Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay

Inspired by an article of R. Bryant on holomorphic immersions of unit disks into Lorentzian CR manifolds, we discuss the application of Cartan's method to the question of the existence of bi-disk D ^ in a smooth 9-dimensional real analytic real hypersurface M^9 in C^5 with Levi signature (2, 2) passing through a fixed point. The result is that the lift to M^9 × U(2) of the image of the bi-disk in M^9 must lie in the zero set of two complex-valued functions in M^9 × U(2). We then provide an example where one of the functions does not identically vanish, thus obstructing holomorphic immersions.

Domains: Mathematics [math]

Wei-Guo Foo, Joël Merker. Holomorphic immersions of bi-disks into 9-dimensional real hypersurfaces with Levi signature (2, 2). International Mathematics Research Notices, In press. ⟨hal-03286298⟩