Euclidean complete hypersurfaces with negative constant affine mean curvature (Q2519380)

The authors consider the problem of classifying all locally strongly convex, complete affine hypersurfaces with constant affine mean curvature. They prove the following as main Theorem: ``Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n\) be a bounded convex domain with smooth boundary, \(\varphi\) be a smooth strictly convex function defined in a domain containing \(\Omega \), satisfying \(\det (\varphi _{ij})\leq \frac{d}{2}\), where \( d=(2\sqrt{n} \operatorname{diam}(\Omega ))^{-\frac{n(n+2)}{n+1}}\). Then, there is a function \(u\in C^\infty(\Omega )\cap C^0(\overline{\Omega})\) such that: 1) \(u\) satisfies \(\sum u^{ij}V_{ij}=nL_1\), \(\det (u_{ij})= V^{-n-2}\) in \(\Omega\), while \(u=\varphi\), \(V=0\), on \(\partial\Omega\). 2) The hypersurface \(M\) defined by the graph of the Legendre transform \(f\) of \(u\) is an Euclidean complete affine hypersurface with constant affine mean curvature \(L_{1}<0\). Moreover, when \(n=2\), \(M\) is also complete with respect to the Blaschke metric''. They also show the extension of the above to the case of a general convex domain with continuous boundary, by the well-known procedure of approximating the latter by means of convex domains with smooth boundaries. Finally, they formulate a conjecture stating that ``every Euclidean complete affine hypersurface with negative constant affine mean curvature can be obtained in this fashion''.