Boundary behavior of certain holomorphic maps (Q1174975)

The point of departure for the paper under review is work of \textit{S. Alinhac}, \textit{M. S. Baouendi} and \textit{L. P. Rothschild} [Duke Math. J. 61, No. 2, 635-653 (1990; Zbl 0718.32021)], and \textit{S. Bell} and \textit{L. Lempert} [J. Differ. Geom. 32, No. 3, 899-915 (1990; Zbl 0716.32002)]\ on the boundary behavior of holomorphic maps from \(\mathbb{C}\) to \(\mathbb{C}^ n\). Let \(H_ r\) denote the intersection of the open disk of radius \(r\) centered at the origin with the upper half-plane. Theorems 1 and 2 deal with holomorphic maps from \(H_ r\) to \(\mathbb{C}\) (i.e. holomorphic functions) having their cluster sets along \([-r,r]\)\ contained in a Jordan arc (Theorem 1) or, more generally, a plane continuum with empty interior satisfying certain additional conditions (Theorem 2). In both cases, it is shown that \(f\) extends continuously to \(H_ r\cup(-r,r)\). In Theorem 1, the stronger hypothesis yields in addition a certain finiteness property (analogous to finite order vanishing in the smooth case). Theorem 3 generalizes Theorem 1 to mappings to \(\mathbb{C}^ n\). Here the Jordan curve \(\Gamma\) in \(\mathbb{C}^ n\) is assumed to satisfy a very weak smoothness condition: a certain complex tangent cone should reduce to a complex line at a dense set of points. (In \(\mathbb{C}^ 1\), this condition is trivially satisfied.).