Unique continuation for solutions to the induced Cauchy-Riemann equations

AbstractLet M be a real infinitely differentiable closed hypersurface in X, a complex manifold of dimension n ⩾ 2, and let \̄t6M denote the induced Cauchy-Riemann operator on M. The problem considered in this paper is unique continuation for distribution solutions to the equation \̄t6Mu = 0 (these solutions are called CR distributions). In a local version of the problem it is shown that a CR distribution u in an open set U ⊂M which vanishes on one side of a C1 hypersurface S ⊂U which is noncharacteristic at a point p ϵ S necessarily vanishes in a neighborhood of p. If the CR distribution u is a continuous function on U, then it is only necessary to assume that u vanishes on S in order to prove that u vanishes in a neighborhood of p in M. It is also proved that if u is a CR distribution on M, then the boundary of the support of u is foliated by complex hypersurfaces. Thus a global unique continuation theorem is obtained by assuming that such a set is not contained in M