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In this paper we construct a large class of new normal forms for Levi-nondegenerate real hypersurfaces in complex spaces. We adopt a general approach illustrating why these normal forms are natural and which role is played by the celebrated Chern-Moser normal form. The latter appears in our class as the one with the “maximum normalization” in the lowest degree. However, there are other natural normal forms, even with normalization conditions for the terms of the same degree. Some of these forms do not involve the cube of the trace operator and, in that sense, are simplier than the one by Chern-Moser. We have attempted to give a complete and self-contained exposition (including proofs of well-known results about trace decompositions) that should be accessible to graduate students.
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Dedicated to Linda Preiss Rothschild on the occasion of her birthday
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Zaitsev, D. (2010). New Normal Forms for Levi-nondegenerate Hypersurfaces. In: Complex Analysis. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0009-5_20
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