Indefinite affine hyperspheres admitting a pointwise symmetry. I (Q2381807)

An affine hypersurface \(M\) is said to admit a pointwise symmetry, if there exists a subgroup \(G\) of \(\mathrm{Aut}(T_p M)\) for all \(p\in M\), which preserves (pointwise) the affine metric \(h\), the difference tensor \(K\) (respectively, the cubic form) and the affine shape operator \(S\). While \textit{L. Vrancken} classified the 3-dimensional positive definite affine hyperspheres with this property [see Contemporary geometry and related topics. Proceedings of the workshop, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, May 15--21, 2002. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific. 431--459 (2004; Zbl 1071.53009)], the author and \textit{Y. Lu} extended the results to positive definite affine hypersurfaces [see Result. Math. 48, No.~3--4, 275--300 (2005; Zbl 1114.53007)]. In the present paper the author investigates 3-dimensional indefinite affine hypersurfaces with the above property. First an algebraic problem is solved, namely the determination of the non-trivial stabilizers \(G\) of a traceless cubic form on the Lorentz-Minkowski space under the action of the isometry group \(SO(1,2)\). In the case of 3-dimensional indefinite affine hyperspheres and \(G\) isomorphic to \(Z_2 \times Z_2\), \(M\) is equivalent to an open subset of \((x_1^2+x_2^2)(x_3^2+x_4^2)=1\) and in case \(G\) isomorphic \(\mathbb R\), the sectional curvature of \(M\) is constant and the Pick invariant is zero.