Hypersurfaces through higher-codimensional submanifolds of ? n with preserved Levi-kernelwith preserved Levi-kernel

For a “generic” submanifoldS of a complex manifoldX, we show that there exists a hypersurfaceM⊃S which has the same number of negative (or positive) Levi-eigenvalues asS at one prescribed conormal (cf. also 9]). When ranksL _S is constant, thenM may be found such thatL _M andL _S have the same number of negative eigenvalues at any common conormal. Assuming the existence of a hypersurfaceM with the above property, we then discuss the link between complex submanifolds ofS whose tangent plane belongs to the null-space of the Levi-formL _S ofS (of all complex submanifolds whenL _S is semi-definite), and complex submanifolds ofT _S ^* X. As an application we give a simple result on propagation of microanalyticity for CR-hyperfunctions along complex,L _S -null, curves (cf. 3]).