Hartogs-type extension for tube-like domains in \(\mathbb C^2\) (Q500245)

A smoothly-bounded domain in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) is \textit{of Hartogs type} if each smooth CR function on the boundary extends continuously to a holomorphic function on the interior. The paper is about the problem of characterizing those unbounded domains that are of Hartogs type. There is little work to date on the unbounded case. The authors mainly consider \textit{tube-like domains} in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) with \(C^\infty\) boundary. Tube-like domains are unbounded domains \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}^2\) such that \(\pi(\Omega)\) is bounded, where \(\pi:\mathbb{C}^2\to P\) is an \(\mathbb{R}\)-linear projection onto some two-real-dimensional subspace of \(\mathbb{C}^2\). They conjecture that a tube-like domain with connected \(C^1\) boundary is of Hartogs type if there is no complex line contained in its closure. Their main results are about domains that have a complex line in the boundary. They show that tube-like domains of this kind may or may not be of Hartogs type. Their results give separate necessary and sufficient conditions for such domains to be of Hartogs type. For tube-like domains with a complex line in the boundary, the necessary and sufficient conditions are very close, but there is a gap, and this indicates that the problem is difficult.