Nilpotent and recursive flows.
We explore the convergence/divergence of the normal form for a singularity of a vector field on with nilpotent linear part. We show that a Gevrey- vector field with a nilpotent linear part can be reduced to a normal form of Gevrey- type with the use of a Gevrey- transformation. We also give a proof of the existence of an optimal order to stop the normal form procedure. If one stops the normal form procedure at this order, the remainder becomes exponentially small.
We present a geometric proof of the Poincaré-Dulac Normalization Theorem for analytic vector fields with singularities of Poincaré type. Our approach allows us to relate the size of the convergence domain of the linearizing transformation to the geometry of the complex foliation associated to the vector field.