Centroaffine minimal surfaces with non-semisimple centroaffine Tchebychev operator (Q2655721)

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Centroaffine minimal surfaces with non-semisimple centroaffine Tchebychev operator
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    Centroaffine minimal surfaces with non-semisimple centroaffine Tchebychev operator (English)
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    26 January 2010
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    An immersion \(f: M^2\to\mathbb{R}^3\), consisting only of hyperbolic points, is called (indefinite) centroaffine, if the position vector \(f\) is transversal to the tangent plane at each point, and moreover it is called centroaffine minimal, if it minimizes the area integral of the canonical centroaffine metric \(\widetilde h\). Furthermore, if \(T:={1\over 2}\text{\,tr}_{\widetilde h}(\nabla-\widetilde\nabla)\) is the Tchebychev vector field of \(f\) and \(\widetilde\nabla T\) its Tchebychev operator, \(f\) is called semisimple if and only if this (linear) operator is semisimple. The author classifies all non-semisimple centroaffine minimal surfaces with constant scalar curvature \(\kappa\). He also studies the center map \(Z\) of such surfaces, where the center \(Z\) is given by \(Z= f-r\xi\) (\(r\) resp. \(\xi\) equiaffine support function from the origin resp. equiaffine normal of \(f\)).
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    centroaffine minimal surfaces
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    semisimple Tchebychev operator
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    center map
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