Higher dimensional worm domains

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The authors give a construction of a smooth bounded domain whose boundary contains a given Stein manifold with strongly pseudoconvex boundary, having a prescribed codimension and D'Angelo class. Precisely, let \(X\) be a Stein manifold, \(Y\subset X\) be a precompact domain with strongly pseudoconvex boundary of class \(C^{k}\) with \(k\geq 2\dim_{\mathbb{C}} Y\). Let also \(\gamma\in H^{1}_{dR}(Y,\mathbb{R})\) -- de Rham cohomology. It is shown that there exists a domain \(W\) in \(X\times \mathbb{C}^{d}\) having the following properties:\N\begin{itemize}\N\item[(i)] \(W\) is bounded and has \(C^{k}\)-smooth boundary,\N\item[(ii)] the boundary \(bW\) contains the complex submanifold with boundary \(\bar{Y}\times \{0\}\), which has complex codimension \(d\) in the ambient space and real codimension \(2d-1\) in the boundary,\N\item[(iii)] \(bW\) is pseudoconvex, and strongly pseudoconvex outside \(\bar{Y}\times \{0\}\),\N\item[(iv)] the D'Angelo class of \(W\), restricted to \(Y\times \{0\}\), is \(\gamma\).\N\end{itemize}\NWe briefly recall the notion of the D'Angelo class. Let \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{C}^{n}\) be a smooth pseudoconvex domain (whose boundary \(b\Omega\) contains a complex submanifold \(Y\subset b\Omega\)). A pseudo-Hermitian structure \(\theta\) on \(b\Omega\) is any real and nowhere vanishing \(1\)-form that annihilates the complex tangent distribution to \(b\Omega\). One says that a real vector field \(T\) on the boundary is \(\theta\)-normalized if \(\theta(T)\equiv 1\). To each pair \((\theta,T)\) with \(T\) \(\theta\)-normalized, one associates the D'Angelo form\N\[\N\alpha_{\theta,T}=-\mathcal{L}_{T}\theta,\N\]\Nwhere \(\mathcal{L}_{T}\) is the Lie derivative in the direction of \(T\). One refers to the set of all D'Angelo forms as the D'Angelo class of \(b\Omega\). The D'Angelo class defines an element of \(H_{dR}^{1}(Y,\mathbb{R})\) (however, it is not de Rham cohomology class per se).



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