Characterization of the generic unfolding of a weak focus

In this paper we prove that the orbital class of a generic real analytic family unfolding a weak focus is determined by the conjugacy class of its Poincaré monodromy and vice versa. We solve the embedding problem by means of quasiconformal surgery on the formal normal form. The surgery yields an integrable abstract almost complex 2-manifold equipped with an elliptic foliation. The monodromy of the latter coincides with the second iterate of a germ of prescribed family of real analytic diffeomorphisms undergoing a flip bifurcation.