Minimal, rigid foliations by curves on ℂℙ n

We prove the existence of minimal and rigid singular holomorphic foliations by curves on the projective space ℂℙ ⁿ for every dimension n≥2 and every degree d≥2. Precisely, we construct a foliation ℱ which is induced by a homogeneous vector field of degree d, has a finite singular set and all the regular leaves are dense in the whole of ℂℙ ⁿ . Moreover, ℱ satisfies many additional properties expected from chaotic dynamics and is rigid in the following sense: if ℱ is conjugate to another holomorphic foliation by a homeomorphism sufficiently close to the identity, then these foliations are also conjugate by a projective transformation. Finally, all these properties are persistent for small perturbations of ℱ.?This is done by considering pseudo-groups generated on the unit ball 𝔹 ⁿ ⊆ℂ ⁿ by small perturbations of elements in Diff(ℂ ⁿ ,0). Under open conditions on the generators, we prove the existence of many pseudo-flows in their closure (for the C ⁰-topology) acting transitively on the ball. Dynamical features as minimality, ergodicity, positive entropy and rigidity may easily be derived from this approach. Finally, some of these pseudo-groups are realized in the transverse dynamics of polynomial vector fields in ℂℙ ⁿ . Received March 7, 2002 / final version received November 26, 2002?Published online February 7, 2003 Most of this work has been carried out during a visit of the first author to IMPA/RJ and a visit of the second author to the University of Lille 1. We would like to thank these institutes for hospitality and express our gratitude to CNPq-Brazil and CNRS-France for the financial support which made these visits possible. We are also indebted to Paulo Sad, Marcel Nicolau and the referee whose comments helped us to improve on the preliminary version. Finally, the second author has partially conducted this research for the Clay Mathematics Institute.     

Two dimensional neighborhoods of elliptic curves: analytic classification in the torsion case

We investigate the analytic classification of two dimensional neighborhoods of an elliptic curve with torsion normal bundle. We provide the complete analytic classification for those neighborhoods in the simplest formal class and we indicate how to generalize this construction to general torsion case.

     

Classification de certains feuilletages associés à un cusp

We study singularities of foliations given by R. Moussu closely related to a conjecture of R. Thom. We give their analytic classification and prove their topological rigidity.

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Notations , ,F 0 - H 0, III - H ₁,H _p I - H-cusp,H _r -cusp I-3 - H _p I-3, III-2 - -cusp II-1 - _r -cusp III-1     

Normal forms for rank two linear irregular differential equations and moduli spaces

Periodica Mathematica Hungarica - We provide a unique normal form for rank two irregular connections on the Riemann sphere. In fact, we provide a birational model where we introduce apparent...