Deformation of generic submanifolds in a complex manifold

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Abstract: This paper shows that an arbitrary generic submanifold in a complex manifold can be deformed into a 1-parameter family of generic submanifolds satisfying strong nondegeneracy conditions. The proofs use a careful analysis of the jet spaces of embeddings satisfying certain nondegeneracy properties, and also make use of the Thom transversality theorem, as well as the stratification of real-algebraic sets. Optimal results on the order of nondegeneracy are given.


A real submanifold \(M\) in a complex manifold \(X\) is generic if, at every \(p\in M\), we have \(T_pM+JT_pM=T_pX\), where \(J\) denotes the complex structure of \(M\). It is called of finite type if the vector fields with values in \(T_pM\cap JT_pM\) and their commutators span \(T_pM\) at every \(p\in M\). It is finitely nondegenerate if some higher order Levi form is nondegenerate (see the paper for a precise definition). The authors show that a (smooth or analytic) generic real submanifold \(M\) of a complex manifold \(X\), with \(\dim _{\mathbb{C}}X<\dim M<2\dim _{\mathbb{C}}X\), can be approximated, in the Whitney topology, by (smooth or analytic, resp.) generic real submanifolds that are finitely nondegenerate and of finite type. In the smooth case, the result is refined to show that there exist a \(1\)-parameter smooth family of generic embeddings \(\phi:M\times (-1,1)\to X\) such that \(\phi(M,0)=M\) and \(\phi(M,t)\) is finitely nondegenerate and of finite type for all \(t\neq 0\). The authors also provide bounds, that depend on the dimensions of \(M\) and \(X\), for the number of commutators in the definition of finite type and for the lowest order nondegenerate Levi form for the approximating submanifolds.











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