Affine isometric embeddings and rigidity

DOI10.1023/A:1004949130760MaRDI QIDQ677640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas A. Ivey

Publication date 5 April 1998

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004949130760

zbMATH Keywords

affine 4-spaceaffine hypersurfacesaffine normalisometric embeddingPick formrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15)

Review text

The rigidity of affine hypersurfaces in the standard affine 4-space \(\mathbb{R}^4\) is studied in this paper. Let \((M,g)\) be an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold and two affine isometric immersions of \((M,g)\) into \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) be given. An affine isometric immersion is an immersion for which the induced affine metric is equal to the given \(g\). The question is, under which conditions the two immersions are equivalent relative to the special affine group. A classical result says that if the corresponding Pick cubic forms are equal, then the immersions are equivalent. The author gives pointwise conditions on the Pick form under which an isometric embedding of a Riemannian 3-dimensional manifold into \(\mathbb{R}^4\) is rigid.

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