CR-varieties of the type \((1,2)\) as varieties of ``super-high'' codimension (Q1267432)

In the study of biholomorphic mappings and automorphisms of a nondegenerate real hypersurface of a complex space \(\mathbb{C}^n\) there is used the tangent hyperquadric [\textit{S. S. Chern} and \textit{J. K. Moser}, Acta Math. 133, No. 3-4, 219-271 (1975; Zbl 0302.32015)]. In the study of real surface of codimension \(q\), \(q>1\), a tangent quadric of high codimension also plays an important role [author's papers, Math. USSR, Sb. 72, No. 1, 189-205 (1992); translation from Mat. Sb. 182, No. 2, 203-219 (1991; Zbl 0728.32011), Math. Notes 55, No. 5, 439-445 (1994); translation from Mat. Zametki 55, No. 5, 3-12 (1994; Zbl 0831.32005)]. A CR-variety \(M\) is said to be of type \((n,k)\) if \(n\) is the complex dimension of the complex part of the tangent space and \(k\) is the dimension of the quotient space of the total tangent space by the complex part, i.e. CR-codimension. For the tangent quadric be nondegenerate the necessary condition is \(1 \leq k \leq n^2\). And for \(k > n^2\) the author calls CR-varieties of type \((n,k)\) varieties of super-high codimension ``to distinguish them from the well-studied case of high codimension in which \(2\leq k \leq n^2\)''. In the reviewed paper there is considered the situation of minimal super-high codimension \(n=1\), \(k=2\), i.e. there is studied a real surface \(M\) in \(\mathbb{C}^3\) such that \(T_{\mathbb{C}} T^{\mathbb{C}}M= 1\), \(\text{codim}_R TM = 2\). There is proved that, with respect to coordinates \((z, w^1 = u^1 + i v^1, w^2 = u^2 + i v^2)\), in a neighborhood of \(0 \in \mathbb{C}^3\) the general surface \(M\) can be written in the form \(v^1 = | z| ^2 + O(3)\), \(v^2=| z| ^2 2 \text{Re } z +O(4)\), where the weights of variables are the following: \([z]=1\), \([w^1]=2\), \([w^2]=3\). The tangent quadric of \(M\) is degenerate, therefore the tangent cubic \(Q\) given via the equations \(v^1 = | z| ^2\), \(v^2=| z| ^2 2 Re z\) is considered. There is demonstrated that the properties of \(Q\) are similar to the properties of a nondegenerate quadric, in particular, that the automorphism algebra \(\text{aut}(Q)\) of \(Q\) is finite-dimensional (in fact, \(\text{dim aut}(Q) = 5\)), and that \(Q\) is a globally homogeneous surface. At the end of the paper there is discussed the question: ``whether in each CR-class (with chosen values of the dimension and of the CR-dimension) there are homogeneous representatives with finite-dimensional group''. There is found a series of homogeneous surfaces of type \((1,n)\) in \(\mathbb{C}^{n+1}\) for arbitrary \(n\).