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Geometry of hyperbolic Cauchy-Riemann singularities and KAM-like theory for holomorphic involutions

This article is concerned with the geometry of germs of real analytic surfaces in $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ having an isolated Cauchy-Riemann (CR) singularity at the origin. These are perturbations of {\it Bishop quadrics}. There are two kinds of CR singularities stable under perturbation~: {\it elliptic} and {\it hyperbolic}. Elliptic case was studied by Moser-Webster \cite{moser-webster} who showed that such a surface is locally, near the CR singularity, holomorphically equivalent to {\it normal form} from which lots of geometric features can be read off. In this article we focus on perturbations of {\it hyperbolic} quadrics. As was shown by Moser-Webster \cite{moser-webster}, such a surface can be transformed to a formal {\it normal form} by a formal change of coordinates that may not be holomorphic in any neighborhood of the origin. Given a {\it non-degenerate} real analytic surface $M$ in $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ having a {\it hyperbolic} CR singularity at the origin, we prove the existence of a non-constant Whitney smooth family of connected holomorphic curves intersecting $M$ along holomorphic hyperbolas. This is the very first result concerning hyperbolic CR singularity not equivalent to quadrics. This is a consequence of a non-standard KAM-like theorem for pair of germs of holomorphic involutions $\{τ_1,τ_2\}$ at the origin, a common fixed point. We show that such a pair has large amount of invariant analytic sets biholomorphic to $\{z_1z_2=const\}$ (which is not a torus) in a neighborhood of the origin, and that they are conjugate to restrictions of linear maps on such invariant sets.