On the resolution of singularities of one-dimensional foliations on three-manifolds

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the resolution of singularities of holomorphic vector fields and one-dimensional holomorphic foliations in dimension three, and it has two main objectives. First, within the general framework of one-dimensional foliations, we build upon and essentially complete the work of Cano, Roche, and Spivakovsky (2014). As a consequence, we obtain a general resolution theorem comparable to the resolution theorem of McQuillan–Panazzolo (2013) but proved by means of rather different methods. The other objective of this paper is to consider a special class of singularities of foliations containing, in particular, all the singularities of complete holomorphic vector fields on complex manifolds of dimension three. We then prove that a much sharper resolution theorem holds for this class of holomorphic foliations. This second result was the initial motivation for this paper. It relies on combining earlier resolution theorems for (general) foliations with some classical material on asymptotic expansions for solutions of differential equations. Bibliography: 34 titles.