Flexible and inflexible CRCR submanifolds

In this paper we prove new embedding results for compactly supported deformations of $CR$ submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^{n+d}$: We show that if $M$ is a $2$-pseudoconcave $CR$ submanifold of type $(n,d)$ in $\mathbb{C}^{n+d}$, then any compactly supported $CR$ deformation stays in the space of globally $CR$ embeddable in $\mathbb{C}^{n+d}$ manifolds. This improves an earlier result, where $M$ was assumed to be a quadratic $2$-pseudoconcave $CR$ submanifold of $\mathbb{C}^{n+d}$. We also give examples of weakly $2$-pseudoconcave $CR$ manifolds admitting compactly supported $CR$ deformations that are not even locally $CR$ embeddable.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1611.0542

Non locally trivializable CRCR line bundles over compact Lorentzian CRCR manifolds

We consider compact $CR$ manifolds of arbitrary $CR$ codimension that satisfy certain geometric conditions in terms of their Levi form. Over these compact $CR$ manifolds, we construct a deformation of the trivial $CR$ line bundle over $M$ which is topologically trivial over $M$ but fails to be even locally $CR$ trivializable over any open subset of $M$. In particular, our results apply to compact Lorentzian $CR$ manifolds of hypersurface type.Comment: to appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourie

Remarks on weakly pseudoconvex boundaries: Erratum

We make two tiny corrections to our previous paper with the same title, and also obtain, as a bonus, something new

On the Cauchy problem for the debar operator

We present new results concerning the solvability, of lack thereof, in the Cauchy problem for the debar operator, with initial values assigned on a weakly pseudoconvex hypersurface, and provide illustrative examples.Comment: This is the final version, which is appearing in Arkiv foer Mathemati