Rigidity theorems for relative Tchebychev hypersurfaces (Q310880)

Relative differential geometry is a general theory of the affine differential geometry of hypersurfaces in an affine space, which contains equiaffine and centroaffine differential geometry as special cases. In relative differential geometry, the concepts of relative Tchebychev hypersufaces can be defined as a generalization of affine spheres in equiaffine differential geometry and Tchebychev hypersurfaces in centroaffine differential geometry. In this paper, using the method developed in the rigidity theory of minimal submanifolds, the author calculates the Laplacian of the norm of the cubic Simon form for a hypersurface with a relative normalization, and obtains some local and global rigidity results about the cubic form for relative Tchebychev hypersurfaces.