About ${\mathcal{C}}^{\infty }$ foliations by holomorphic curves on complex surfaces

Abstract

We study those real ${\mathcal{C}}^{\infty }$ foliations in complex surfaces whose leaves are holomorphic curves. The main motivation is to try and understand these foliations in neighborhoods of curves: can we expect the space of foliations in a fixed neighborhood to be infinite-dimensional, or are there some contexts under which every such foliation is holomorphic? We give some restrictions and study in more details the geometry of foliations whose leaves belong to a holomorphic family of holomorphic curves. In particular, we classify all real-analytic foliations on neighborhoods of curves which are locally diffeomorphic to foliations by lines, under some non-degeneracy hypothesis.