Symmetries of partial differential equations

We establish a link between the study of completely integrable systems of partial differential equations and the study of generic submanifolds in C^n. Using the recent developments of Cauchy-Riemann geometry we provide the set of symmetries of such a system with a Lie group structure. Finally we determine the precise upper bound of the dimension of this Lie group for some specific systems of partial differential equations

Characteristic foliations on maximally real submanifolds of C^n and envelopes of holomorphy

Let S be an arbitrary real surface, with or without boundary, contained in a hypersurface M of the complex euclidean space \C^2, with S and M of class C^{2, a}, where 0 < a < 1. If M is globally minimal, if S is totally real except at finitely many complex tangencies which are hyperbolic in the sense of E. Bishop and if the union of separatrices is a tree of curves without cycles, we show that every compact K of S is CR-, W- and L^p-removable (Theorem~1.3). We treat this seemingly global problem by means of purely local techniques, namely by means of families of small analytic discs partially attached to maximally real submanifolds of C^n and by means of a thorough study of the relative disposition of the characteristic foliation with respect to the track on M of a certain half-wedge attached to M. This localization procedure enables us to answer an open problem raised by B. J\"oricke: under a certain nontransversality condition with respect to the characteristic foliation, we show that every closed subset C of a C^{2,a}-smooth maximally real submanifold M^1 of a (n-1)-codimensional generic C^{2,a}-smooth submanifold of \C^n is CR-, W- and L^p-removable (Theorem~1.2'). The known removability results in CR dimension at least two appear to be logical consequences of Theorem~1.2'. The main proof (65p.) is written directly in arbitrary codimension. Finally, we produce an example of a nonremovable 2-torus contained in a maximally real 3-dimensional maximally real submanifold, showing that the nontransversality condition is optimal for universal removability. Numerous figures are included to help readers who are not insiders of higher codimensional geometry.Comment: 113 pages, 24 figures, LaTe

Nonalgebraizable real analytic tubes in C^n

We give necessary conditions for certain real analytic tube generic submanifolds in C^n to be locally algebraizable. As an application, we exhibit families of real analytic non locally algebraizable tube generic submanifolds in C^n. During the proof, we show that the local CR automorphism group of a minimal, finitely nondegenerate real algebraic generic submanifold is a real algebraic local Lie group. We may state one of the main results as follows. Let M be a real analytic hypersurface tube in C^n passing through the origin, having a defining equation of the form v = \phi(y), where (z,w)= (x+iy,u+iv) \in C^{n-1} \times C. Assume that M is Levi nondegenerate at the origin and that the real Lie algebra of local infinitesimal CR automorphisms of M is of minimal possible dimension n, i.e. generated by the real parts of the holomorphic vector fields \partial_{z_1}, ..., \partial_{z_{n-1}}, \partial_w. Then M is locally algebraizable only if every second derivative \partial^2_{y_ky_l}\phi is an algebraic function of the collection of first derivatives \partial_{y_1} \phi,..., \partial_{y_m} \phi.Comment: 36 pages, 4 figure

On the local geometry of generic submanifolds of C^n and the analytic reflection principle (Part I)

We build an elementary analytico-geometric theory of Segre chains and their jets.Comment: 77 pages, 7 figure

Enveloppe d'holomorphie locale des vari\'et\'es CR et \'elimination des singularit\'es pour les fonctions CR int\'egrables

Soient $M$ une vari\'et\'e CR localement plongeable et $\Phi\subset M$ un ferm\'e. On donne des conditions suffisantes pour que les fonctions $L_{loc}^1$ qui sont CR sur $M\backslash \Phi$ le soient aussi sur $M$ tout entier.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX. To appear in C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 199

Holomorphic extension of CR functions, envelopes of holomorphy and removable singularities

This is an extensive (published) survey on CR geometry, whose major themes are: formal analytic reflection principle; generic properties of Systems of (CR) vector fields; pairs of foliations and conjugate reflection identities; Sussmann's orbit theorem; local and global aspects of holomorphic extension of CR functions; Tumanov's solution of Bishop's equation in Hoelder classes with optimal loss of smoothness; wedge-extendability on C^2,a generic submanifolds of C^n consisting of a single CR orbit; propagation of CR extendability and edge-of-the-wedge theorem; Painlev\'{e} problem; metrically thin singularities of CR functions; geometrically removable singularities for solutions of the induced d-barre. Selected theorems are fully proved, while surveyed results are put in the right place in the architecture.Comment: 283 pages ; 33 illustrations ; 16 open problems http://www.hindawi.com/journals/imrs