A new example of a uniformly Levi degenerate hypersurface in \(\mathbb C^3\) (Q1426922)

The tube \(\Gamma_{\mathbb{C}} := \mathbb{C} +i \mathbb{R}^3 \subset \mathbb{C}^3\) over the real two-dimensional cone is the standard model for uniformly Levi degenerate, two-nondegenerate real analytic hypersurface \(M\) in \(\mathbb{C}^3\). This tube is characterized by the vanishing of some curvature and, moreover, it satisfies \[ \dim_{\mathbb{R}} \Aut_{\text{CR}} (M,p) \leq 2. \] In this paper the authors present a simple example of a homogeneous hypersurface \(M_0\) in \(\mathbb{C}^3\), having two-dimensional isotropy subalgebras, which is not locally biholomorpically equivalent to \(\Gamma_{\mathbb{C}}\). This can be seen from the fact that the subalgebra \(\Aut_{\text{CR}} (M_0, p)\) is commutative in contrast to its counterpart \(\Aut_{\text{CR}} (\Gamma_C, p)\).