Examples of surfaces in$P$^{6}with no trisecant lines are constructed. A partial classification recovering them is given and conjectured to be the complete one.

This paper is devoted to the study of the Cauchy problem in$C$^{∞}and in the Gevrey classes for some second order degenerate hyperbolic equations with time dependent coefficients and lower order terms satisfying a suitable Levi condition.

In his 1983 paper [3], R. F. Gundy introduced a new functional related to the Littlewood-Paley theory, called the$density of the area integral$. In this paper, we prove that this functional (although highly non-linear) can be expressed as the principal value of an explicit singular integral. This result provides us with a new and precise connection between the density of the area integral and the theory of Calderón-Zygmund operators. It does not seem to be a consequence of the standard Calderón-Zygmund-Cotlar theory, because the$sign$of a harmonic function in the half-space fails to have, in some appropriate sense, boundary limits.

In this paper we show that the pluripolar hull of$E$={($z$, ω)∈C^{2}:ω=$e$^{−1/z},$z$≠0} is equal to$E$. This implies that$E$is plurithin at 0, which answers a question of Sadullaev. The result remains valid if$e$^{−1/z}is replaced by certain other holomorphic functions with an essential singularity at 0.

The main goal of this paper is to present an alternative, real variable proof of the$T$(1)-theorem for the Cauchy integral. We then prove that the estimate from below of analytic capacity in terms of total Menger curvature is a direct consequence of the$T$(1)-theorem. An example shows that the$L$^{∞}-BMO estimate for the Cauchy integral does not follow from$L$^{2}boundedness when the underlying measure is not doubling.