Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 5 (2009), 058, 45 pages      arXiv:0812.2353      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2009.058
Contribution to the Special Issue “Élie Cartan and Differential Geometry”

Extension Phenomena for Holomorphic Geometric Structures

Benjamin McKay
School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Received December 17, 2008, in final form May 07, 2009; Published online June 08, 2009

Abstract
The most commonly encountered types of complex analytic G-structures and Cartan geometries cannot have singularities of complex codimension 2 or more.

Key words: Hartogs extension; Cartan geometry; parabolic geometry; G-structure.

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