The Lipschitz-Killing curvature for an equiaffine immersion and theorems of Gauss-Bonnet type and Chern-Lashof type. (Q5943572)

The author first introduces the notion of an equiaffine immersion of general codimension by the assumption that there exists a transversal bundle (equipped with a transversal volume form \(\theta^\perp\)) such that the induced connection together with the induced volume form (defined as the quotient of the volume form of the surrounding space \(\tilde \theta\) and the volume form of the transversal bundle), i.e., \[ \theta(X_1,\dots,X_n)= \frac{\tilde \theta(X_1,\dots,X_n,\xi_1,\dots,\xi_r)}{\theta^\perp(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_r)} \] determine an equiaffine structure on the submanifold. He then introduces the Lipschitz-Killing curvature of an equiaffine immersion and using Morse theory and appropriate height functions proves several theorems of Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Lashof type.