On the normal bundle of Levi-flat real hypersurfaces (Q2324855)

For a Levi-flat real hypersurface \(M\) in a complex manifold \(X\), the holomorphic normal bundle is defined as \(N^{1,0}_M=(T^{1,0}_X)_{|M}/ T^{1,0}M\). \textit{M. Brunella} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 57, No. 7, 3101--3114 (2008; Zbl 1170.37023)] showed that if \(X\) is a compact Kähler manifold of dimension at least 3 and if there exists a holomorphic foliation on a neighborhood of \(M\) which leaves it invariant, then the normal bundle of this foliation does not admit any fibre metric with positive curvature. In this paper, the author generalizes Brunella's result by showing that it is possible to drop the Kähler compact assumption on the ambient space \(X\). Indeed, she proves that if \(X\) is a connected complex manifold of dimension at least 3, then there does not exist a smooth compact Levi-flat real hypersurface \(M\) in \(X\) such that the normal bundle to the Levi foliation admits a Hermitian metric with positive curvature along the leaves.