Lorentzian affine hypersurfaces with parallel cubic form (Q545519): Difference between revisions

Consider an affine connection \(\nabla\) and the Levi-Civita connection \(\bar{\nabla}\) of a semi-Riemannian metric \(h\) on a manifold \(M\), where the difference tensor \(K\) is given by \(\displaystyle K(X, Y) = \nabla_X Y - \bar{\nabla}_X Y\) for all \(X, Y \in \Gamma(TM)\). Then, the cubic form \(C = \nabla h\) is given by \[ h(K(X, Y), Z) = - \tfrac{1}{2} C(X, Y, Z). \] In this paper, the authors study Lorentzian affine hypersurfaces \((M, h)\) of an \((n + 1)\)-dimensional real unimodular-affine space equipped with its canonical flat connection and a parallel volume form, with \(\bar{\nabla} C = 0\). They give a complete classification of such hypersurfaces using previous results for \(n\leq 3\) and proving a theorem for the cases \(n\geq 4\).