Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2018
Let $Y$ be a compact complex manifold embedded in a complex manifold with unitary flat normal bundle. Our interest is in a sort of the linearizability problem of a neighborhood of $Y$. As a higher codimensional generalization of Ueda’s result, we give a sufficient condition for the existence of a nonsingular holomorphic foliation on a neighborhood of $Y$ which includes $Y$ as a leaf with unitary-linear holonomy. We apply this result to the existence problem of a smooth Hermitian metric with semipositive curvature on a nef line bundle.