Global structures on CR manifolds via Nash blow-ups

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132719MaRDI QIDQ5954562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Garrity

Publication date 4 February 2002

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9909078

zbMATH Keywords

CR manifoldCR-Nash blow-up

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Real submanifolds in complex manifolds (32V40)

Abstract: A generic compact real codimension two submanifold X of C^(n+2) will have a CR structure at all but a finite number of points (failing at the complex jump points J). The main theorem of this paper gives a method of extending the CR structure on the non-jump points X-J to the jump points. We examine a Gauss map from X-J to an appropriate flag manifold F and take the closure of the graph of this map in X x F. This is a version of a Nash blow-up. We give a clean criterion for when this closure is a smooth manifold and see that the local differential properties at the points X-J can now be naturally extended to this new smooth manifold, allowing global techniques from differential geometry to be applied to compact CR manifolds. As an example, we find topological obstructions for the manifold to be Levi nondegenerate.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed (compact with no boundary) real \((2n+2)\)-dimensional (codimension 2) submanifold of \(\mathbb{C}^{n+2}\). The ``subbundle \(H\) of maximally complex subspaces of \(TM\) is not a true bundle. There are so-called complex jump points, denoted by \(S\), where \(H\) will have real dimension \(2n+2\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThere is a version of the Gauss map from \(M-S\) to a flag manifold \(F\). The CR-Nash blow-up \(\widehat M\) of \(M\) is the closure of the graph of this map in \(M\times F.\) The Gauss map \(g:M\to Gr(2n+2,\mathbb{C}^{n+2})\) assigns each point of \(M\) its tangent space in the Grassmannian \(Gr(2n+2,\mathbb{C}^{n+2})\). Let \(C\) denote the space of elements in \(Gr(2n+2,\mathbb{C}^{n+2})\), which inherit a complex structure from \(\mathbb{C}^{n+2}\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe author proves the following result. Suppose \(g(M)\) intersects \(C\) transversally. Then \(\widehat M\) is a smooth manifold.

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