On convergence of normal form transformations

Abstract: We discuss various aspects concerning transformations of local analytic, or formal, vector fields to Poincare-Dulac normal form, and the convergence of such transformations. We first review A.D. Bruno's approach to formal normalization, as well as convergence results in presence of certain (simplified) versions of Bruno's Condition A'', and along the way we also identify a large class of systems that satisfy Bruno's diophantineCondition omega''. We retrace the proof steps in Bruno's work, using a different formalism and variants in the line of arguments. We then proceed to show how Bruno's approach naturally extends to an elementary proof of L. Stolovitch's formal and analytic simultaneous normalization theorems for abelian Lie algebras of vector fields. Finally we investigate the role of integrability for convergence, sharpening some existing and adding new results. In particular we give a characterization of formally meromorphic first integrals, and their relevance for convergence.