Local \(q\)-completeness of complements of smooth CR-manifolds (Q1202204)

The subject of this article are local complex-analytic properties of complements of smooth CR-submanifolds \(M\subset\mathbb{C}^ n\). The integers \(q\) for which \(\mathbb{C}^ n\backslash M\) is, or cannot be, locally \(q\)- complete are estimated by investigating the Levi forms of local defining functions for \(M\). It becomes apparent that in case \(M\), near one of its points \(p\), is locally contained in a real hypersurface \(H\), the Levi form of \(H\) restricted to the holomorphic tangent space \(T_ p^{10}M\) of \(M\) at \(p\) having \(k\) non-zero eigenvalues of the same sign (``\(M\) has the property \(E_ k(p)\)''), then \(\mathbb{C}^ n\backslash M\) cannot be locally \((d+k-1)\)-complete at \(p\) where \(d\) denotes the CR-codimension of \(M\). Obviously, \(\mathbb{C}^ n\backslash M\) is not locally \((d+b(p)-1)\)- complete at \(p\) if one defines \(b(p):=\max\{k\in N| M\) has the property \(E_ k(p)\}\), and we see that \(\mathbb{C}^ n\backslash M\) is not locally \((d+\hat b(p)-1)\)-complete at \(p\) where \(\hat b(p):=\varlimsup_{M\ni\tilde p\to p}b(\tilde p)\). This result, however, proves to be optimal in the case of generic CR-submanifolds \(M\subset \mathbb{C}^ n\) as well as in the case of complex submanifolds \(M\subset\mathbb{C}^ n\), because then \(\mathbb{C}^ n\backslash M\) is locally \(q\)-complete at \(p\) for \(q:=d+\hat b(p)\). In the general case of non- generic CR-submanifolds \(M\subset\mathbb{C}^ n\) we obtain local \((d+\hat b(p)+1)\)-completeness of \(\mathbb{C}^ n\backslash M\) at \(p\); it remains an open question whether local \((d+\hat b(p))\)-completeness holds in this case, too. These results generalize to local theorems on \(q\)-completeness of complements of CR-submanifolds \(M\) in arbitrary complex manifolds \(X\); for some special choices of \(X\) (for instance, \(X\) Stein or \(X=P_ n)\), global results can be obtained.