Nondicritical \(\mathbb C^*\)-actions on two-dimensional Stein manifolds (Q1016514)

The authors show that if \(V\) is a two dimensional nonsingular Stein analytic space for which \(H^{2}(V, \mathbb{Z})=0\) and \(H_{1}(V, \mathbb{C})=0\) and \(\phi : \mathbb{C}^*\times V\rightarrow V\) is a \( \mathbb{C}^*\)-action on \(V\) with isolated singularities in \(V\) having a nondicritical singularity at \(p \in V\), then this action admits a holomorphic first integral \(F: V\rightarrow R\) (where \(R\) is \(\mathbb{D}\) or \(\mathbb{C}\)) of the form \(F= f^{n_{1}}_{1} f^{n_{2}}_{2}\), (where (\(f_{1}=0\)) and (\(f_{2}=0\)) are irreducible curves. The holomorphic foliation \(\mathcal F_{\phi}\) induced by the action \(\phi\) on \(V\) is the pull-back of the linear foliation \(\mathcal F_{1}\) given on \(\mathbb{C}^{2}_{(x,y)}\) by the vector field \(X= x \frac {\partial}{\partial x} - y \frac {\partial}{\partial y}\) and corresponding to the action \(\rho: \mathbb{C}^* \times \mathbb{C}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}^{2}\) given by \(\rho(s,(x,y)=(sx, s^{-1}y)\). The map \(\mu :=( f^{n_{1}}_{1} , f^{n_{2}}_{2})\) is bijective as a map between leaf spaces. Moreover, the authors sharpen the result by showing that if for any two different points \(x_{0}, y_{0} \in \mathbb {C} \setminus \{ 0\}\) the set \( \{ f_{1} =x_{0} \} \cap \{f_{2} =y _{0}\}\) is finite, then there is an analytic diffeomorphism \(\alpha : \mathbb{C}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}^{2}\) such that \((\alpha \circ \mu) \circ \phi_{s} = \rho_{s} \circ (\alpha \circ \mu)\) (here, \(\rho_{s} (x,y)=(sx, s^{-1}y)\). An interesting consequence for the case where one works with a holomorphic flow with isolated singularities is also given.