New results on the linearization of Nambu structures (Q1935827)

A Nambu structure, defined by \textit{L. Takhtajan} in [Commun. Math. Phys. 160, No. 2, 295--315 (1994; Zbl 0808.70015)] is an integrable multi-vector field in the sense that it gives rises to a singular foliation and a contravariant volume form on it [\textit{J.-P. Dufour} and the author, Poisson structures and their normal forms. Basel: Birkhäuser. (2005; Zbl 1082.53078)]. A classification of Nambu structures was given by \textit{J.-P. Dufour} and the author in [Compos. Math. 117, No. 1, 77--98 (1999; Zbl 0969.53047)], where linearization results for Nambu structures with a nondegenerate linear part were obtained. That paper left open the case of a smooth linearization of Nambu structures with a type I hyperbolic linear part which satisfies a natural signature condition. The present paper proves that such hyperbolic Nambu structures are also smoothly linearizable and gives a strong version of the analytic linearization theorem in the analytic case.