Canonical centroaffine hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb{R}{}}^{n+1}\) (Q1190283)

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Canonical centroaffine hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb{R}{}}^{n+1}\)
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    Canonical centroaffine hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb{R}{}}^{n+1}\) (English)
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    27 September 1992
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    The authors consider a centroaffine hypersurface in real affine space, which means a nondegenerate hypersurface \(M\) with centroaffine normalization. They assume the hypersurface to satisfy two conditions: (i) the centroaffine metric \(G\) is flat; (ii) the centroaffine cubic form is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of \(G\). The authors reduce the differential geometric classification problem to an algebraic classification problem of \(n\) mutually commutative selfadjoint operators with respect to an inner product; here \(n=\dim M\). Their method allows to give a partial classification and to construct families of examples.
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    flat centroaffine metric
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    parallel centroaffine cubic form
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