On singular real analytic Levi-flat foliations

Abstract

A singular real analytic foliation $\mathcal{F}$ of real codimension one on an $n$-dimensional complex manifold $M$ is Levi-flat if each of its leaves is foliated by immersed complex manifolds of dimension $n-1$. These complex manifolds are leaves of a singular real analytic foliation $\mathcal{L}$ which is tangent to $\mathcal{F}$. In this article, we classify germs of Levi-flat foliations at $({\mathbb{C}}^n,0)$ under the hypothesis that $\mathcal{L}$ is a germ holomorphic foliation. Essentially, we prove that there are two possibilities for $\mathcal{L}$, from which the classification of $\mathcal{F}$ derives: either it has a meromorphic first integral or is defined by a closed rational $1-$form. Our local results also allow us to classify real algebraic Levi-flat foliations on the complex projective space ${\mathbb{P}}^n={\mathbb{P}}_{\mathbb{C}}^n$.

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