On the analytic and geometric aspects of obstruction flatness

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate analytic and geometric properties of obstruction flatness of strongly pseudoconvex CR hypersurfaces of dimension $2n-1$. Our first two results concern local aspects. Theorem 3.2 asserts that any strongly pseudoconvex CR hypersurface $M\subset {\mathbb{C}}^n$ can be osculated at a given point $p\in M$ by an obstruction flat one up to order $2n+4$ generally and $2n+5$ if and only if $p$ is an obstruction flat point. In Theorem 4.1, we show that locally there are non-spherical but obstruction flat CR hypersurfaces with transverse symmetry for $n=2$. The final main result in this paper concerns the existence of obstruction flat points on compact, strongly pseudoconvex, 3-dimensional CR hypersurfaces. Theorem 5.1 asserts that the unit sphere in a negative line bundle over a Riemann surface $X$ always has at least one circle of obstruction flat points.