Boundaries of Levi-flat hypersurfaces of \(\mathbb{C}^2\) (Q4499580)

The author discusses some results that he recently obtained in joint work with \textit{N. V. Shcherbina} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 1999, No. 3, 111-151 (1999; Zbl 0935.32027)] regarding the problem of identifying (real) surfaces \(M\subset \mathbb{C}^2\) which arise as the boundary \(bX\) of a Levi-flat hypersurface \(X\), i.e., surfaces that are foliated by holomorphic curves. In contrast to earlier work by other authors, where \(M\) is, in particular, assumed compact, the present authors consider the case where \(M\) is the graph of a continuous function \(\varphi:b G\to\mathbb{R}\), where \(G\subset \mathbb{C}\times \mathbb{R}\) is an unbounded domain, such that \(G\times i\mathbb{R} \subset \mathbb{C}^2\) is, for example, strictly pseudoconvex. Some key steps of the proofs are outlined briefly. The interested reader should consult the complete paper (op. cit.). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0940.00031].