On ‘type’ conditions for generic real submanifolds of ℂn
On ‘type’ conditions for generic real submanifolds of ℂn
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关于 ℂn 的泛型实数子流形的“类型”条件
DOI:
10.1007/bf01425740
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Ian D. Graham
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作者:
T. Bloom;Ian D. Graham
In [13] JJ Kohn studied local boundary regularity for the~-Neumann problem for weakly pseudoconvex domains in r He introduced the notion of type of a point on the boundary of such a domain. The type was defined as the minimum order of a commutator of the (essentially unique) tangential holomorphic vector field and its conjugate needed to obtain the'missing'direction. The subelliptic estimates obtained by Kohn depend on this quantity. See also [9]. In [2] we defined the type of a point P on a real hypersurface M in~?" to be the minimal order of a commutator of tangential holomorphic and conjugate holomorphic vector fields needed to obtain the missing direction. If the type of P is finite it can be characterized as follows ([2, 13]): P is of type m-1 (type m according to the definition of the present paper) if any local defining function r for M near P has the form (0.2) r= 2Rew+ p (z, 2j+ f for appropriate choice of local holomorphic coordinates. Here p (z, 2) is a nonzero homogeneous polynomial of degree m in z=(z 1,..., z, _j) without pure terms, and, on assigning weight m to w and 1 to the z variables, f has weight> m at P. In 1-2] we gave a geometric characterization of the type of P in terms of the maximum order of tangency of a complex hypersurface. There has been a good deal of other work in partial differential equations where the object of study is an operator formed from vector fields on a manifold such that finitely many commutators of the vector fields span the tangent space of the manifold (1-10, 14, 16, 17]). We mention particularly the work of Rothschild and Stein [17] in which the idea of weights and the use of the'homogeneous' case are highly developed.In this article we study type conditions for generic real submanifolds of codimension k< n of IE". The appropriate notion of type for a point P on such a submanifold M is a k-tuple (ml,..., ink) where each m~ is an integer> 2 or+ oe and m 1< m2<...< mk. The definition (w 1.12) is in terms of properties of commutators of tangential holomorphic and conjugate-holomorphic vector fields. The integer mk is finite if and only if it is possible to obtain all missing directions in the complexified tangent space to M at P by taking such commutators. The main result (Theorem 3.2) is that if mk is finite, then if weights m I..... mk are assigned to suitable complex normal directions there exist defining functions for M near P of the form