Multiple product affine hypersurfaces with semi-parallel cubic form (Q6100716)

The authors study the so-called multiple Riemannian products \(\mathbb{R}^q\times\prod_{i=1}^r M_i^{n_i}(c_i)\) immersed in the affine space. Here the \(M_i^{n_i}(c_i)\)'s denote \(n_i\)-dimensional space forms of constant curvature \(c_i\neq0\). These multiple Riemannian products are considered as locally strongly convex affine hypersurfaces with semi-parallel cubic form relative to the Levi-Civita connection of the affine metric. The main result is a classification theorem for such hypersurfaces under the condition \(q\leq r\). As a consequence of this theorem, some sufficient conditions for a locally strongly convex affine hypersurface \(M^n, n\geq3\), to be an ellipsoid or a hyperboloid in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) are established.