Affine hypersurfaces with parallel difference tensor relative to affine \(\alpha\)-connection (Q478822)

In a spectacular paper \textit{Z. Hu} et al. [J. Differ. Geom. 87, No. 2, 239--308 (2011; Zbl 1220.53015)] gave an explicit classification of all locally strongly convex Blaschke hypersurfaces whose cubic form is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection \(\hat{\nabla}\) of the affine Blaschke metric. This class is a subclass of the class of locally strongly convex hyperbolic affine spheres. Before, about the latter class, there was a qualitative description according to a conjecture of Calabi [\textit{A.-M. Li} et al., Global affine differential geometry of hypersurfaces. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (1993; Zbl 0808.53002)]. In the present paper the author considers a 1-parameter family of connections, namely \({\nabla}^{\alpha} := (1 -\alpha)\hat{\triangledown} + \alpha\triangledown\) for \(\alpha \in \mathbb{R}\), where \(\nabla\) denotes the induced connection of the Blaschke hypersurface. The interest in this family is of proof-technical nature, one considers this family in information geometry. Define the so-called difference tensor by \(K:= \nabla - \hat{\triangledown}\). The author of the present paper studies Blaschke hypersurfaces satisfying the condition \({\nabla}^{\alpha}K = 0\), where he assumes that the Blaschke metric is definite or, in special cases, indefinite.