Local hulls of unions of totally real graphs lying in real analytic hypersurfaces (Q5954533)

Let \(M_1\), \(M_2\) be totally real graphs in a neighborhood of \(0\in\mathbb C^2\) such that \(T_0M_1\cap T_0M_2=\{0\}\). Put \(M:=M_1\cup M_2\). The author studies the question when for small \(r>0\) the set \(M^r:=\{z\in M: \|z\|<r\}\) is polynomially convex and, in the case where \(M^r\) is not polynomially convex, what is the structure of \(\widehat M^r\setminus M^r\). In particular, he shows that if \(M\) is contained in a strongly Levi flat hypersurface, then \(M\) is not locally polynomially convex at \(0\) and for small \(r>0\) the set \(\widehat M^r\setminus M^r\) is a foliation of disjoint analytic annuli.