The Hartogs phenomenon in hypersurfaces with constant signature (Q861964)

The author studies the \(\overline{\partial}\)-equation with zero Cauchy data along a hypersurface with constant signature. She proves Theorem 1.1: Let \(X\) be a Stein manifold and \(M\) a smooth, closed, connected hypersurface in \(X\). Assume that the signature of \(M\) is the same at each point and that \(M\) is weakly \(2\)-convex-concave. Let \(K\) be a compact subset of \(M\) such that \(M\backslash K\) is connected and globally minimal. Then every smooth CR function on \(M\backslash K\) extends to a smooth CR function on \(M\). The theorem is proved by showing that the tangential Cauchy-Riemann cohomology groups \(H_c^{0,1}(M)\) are trivial. More precisely, if \(M\) has the signature \((p^-,p^0,p^+)\) at each point, then \(H_c^{p,q}(M)=0\) for \(q\leq \min (p^-,p^+)+p^0-1\). To show the vanishing of these groups, the author studies the \(\overline{\partial}\) equation with exact support on a domain \(D=\Omega\cap\{\rho<0\}\), where \(\Omega\) is a completely strictly pseudoconvex domain and \(\rho\) is a smooth function such that the Levi form of \(\rho\) has exactly \(p^-\) negative, \(p^0\) zero an \(p^+\) positive eigenvalues on \(T_x^{1,0}\{\rho=0\}\) for every \(x\in \{\rho=0\}, q\leq p^0+p^+\).