Surfaces with affine Gauss-Kronecker curvature zero (Q5932161)

Let \(x:M\to A^{n+1}\) be a locally strongly convex hypersurface equipped with an equiaffine normalization in the affine space \(A^{n+1}\). Let \(G\), respectively \(B\), be its Blaschke metric, respectively its Weingarten form. Furthermore, \(L_n=(\det B)(\det G)^{-1}\) is called the affine Gauss-Kronecker curvature. It is an interesting problem to classify those hypersurfaces for which \(L_n\) is constant. Affine spheres belong to this class. In this paper, the author provides several local and global classification results for the case \(n=2\) and \(L_2=0\).