Lorentzian affine hypersurfaces with parallel cubic form (Q545519)

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    Lorentzian affine hypersurfaces with parallel cubic form (English)
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    22 June 2011
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    Consider an affine connection \(\nabla\) and the Levi-Civita connection \(\bar{\nabla}\) of a semi-Riemannian metric \(h\) on a manifold \(M\), where the difference tensor \(K\) is given by \(\displaystyle K(X, Y) = \nabla_X Y - \bar{\nabla}_X Y\) for all \(X, Y \in \Gamma(TM)\). Then, the cubic form \(C = \nabla h\) is given by \[ h(K(X, Y), Z) = - \tfrac{1}{2} C(X, Y, Z). \] In this paper, the authors study Lorentzian affine hypersurfaces \((M, h)\) of an \((n + 1)\)-dimensional real unimodular-affine space equipped with its canonical flat connection and a parallel volume form, with \(\bar{\nabla} C = 0\). They give a complete classification of such hypersurfaces using previous results for \(n\leq 3\) and proving a theorem for the cases \(n\geq 4\).
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    Lorentzian affine hypersurfaces
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    parallel cubic form
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    affine sphere
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    Levi-Civita connection
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