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2) When M is Levi non<strong>de</strong>generate at the origin, a second-or<strong>de</strong>r complexordinary differential equation 16 of the form:w zz (z) = Φ ( z, w(z), w z (z) ) ,193whose solutions are exactly the Segre varieties of M, parametrized bythe two initial conditions w(0) and w z (0) which correspond bijectivelyto the antiholomorphic variab<strong>les</strong> z q and w q .In fact, the recipe for <strong>de</strong>riving the second-or<strong>de</strong>r differential equation associatedto a local Levi-non<strong>de</strong>generate M ⊂ C 2 with 0 ∈ M represented bya normalized 17 equation of the form (7.28) is very simple. Consi<strong>de</strong>ring thatw = w(z) is given in the equation:w(z) = Θ ( z, z, w )as a function of z with two supplementary (antiholomorphic) parameters zand w that one would like to eliminate, we solve with respect to z and w,just by means of the implicit function theorem 18 , the pair of equations:[w(z) = Θ(z, z, w)= −w + zz + zz O(|z| + |w|)w z (z) = Θ z(z, z, w)= z + z O(|z| + |w|)the second one being obtained by differentiating the first one with respect toz, and this yields a representation:z = ζ ( z, w(z), w z (z) ) and w = ξ ( z, w(z), w z (z) )for certain two uniquely <strong>de</strong>fined local complex analytic functionsζ(z, w, w z ) and ξ(z, w, w z ) of three complex variab<strong>les</strong>. By means ofthese functions, we may then replace z and w in the second <strong>de</strong>rivative:( )w zz (z) = Θ zz z, z, w= Θ zz(z, ζ(z, w(z), wz (z) ) , ξ ( z, w(z), w z (z) ))=: Φ ( z, w(z), w z (z) ) ,and this <strong>de</strong>fines without ambiguity the associated differential equation.More about differential equations will be said in §3 below.16 This i<strong>de</strong>a, usually attributed by contemporary CR geometers to B. Segre, dates in factback (at least) to Chapter 10 of Volume 1 of the 2 100 pages long Theorie <strong>de</strong>r Transformationsgruppenwritten by Sophus <strong>Lie</strong> and Friedrich Engel between 1884 and 1893, where itis even presented in the uppermost general context.17 In fact, such a normalization was ma<strong>de</strong> in advance just in or<strong>de</strong>r to make things concreteand clear, but thanks to what the Lemma on p. 192 expresses in a biholomorphicallyinvariant way, everything which follows next holds in an arbitrary system of coordinates.18 Justification: by our preliminary normalization, the 2 × 2 Jacobian <strong>de</strong>terminant∂(Θ, Θ z)∂(z, w)computed at the origin equals˛ 0 −1˛1 0 ˛, hence is nonzero. Without the preliminarynormalization, the condition of the Lemma on p. 192 also applies in any case.

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