Centroaffine \(T\)-umbilical hypersurfaces and pseudo-parallel cubic form (Q6143036)

For a non-degenerate centroaffine hypersurface in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) with the centroaffine connection \(\nabla\) and the centroaffine metric \(h\), we can define the difference tensor \(K\), which is the difference between \(\nabla\) and the Levi-Civita connection \(\hat{\nabla}\) of \(h\), and the cubic form \(\nabla h\). It is well known that the Pick-Berwald theorem states that the cubic form or difference tensor vanishes if and only if the centroaffine hypersurface is a hyperquadric centered at the origin. In this paper, the notion of locally strongly convex centroaffine \(T\)-umbilical hypersurfaces of \((\lambda_1,\lambda_2)\)-type in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) is introduced as a centroaffine hypersurface with the Tchebychev vector field \(T=\frac{1}{n}\mathrm{trace}\,K\), whose difference tensor \(K\) takes the following form: \[ K(e_1,e_1)=\lambda_1e_1,\, K(e_1,e_i)=\lambda_2e_i,\, K(e_i,e_j)=\delta_{ij}\lambda_2e_1,\, 2\leq i,j\leq n \] for two suitable functions \(\lambda_1\) and \(\lambda_2\) with respect to some suitable local orthonormal frame \(\{e_1,\dots,e_n\}\). These hypersurfaces may be the ``simplest'' centroaffine hypersurfaces next to the hyperquadrics centered at the origin. The authors prove that these hypersurfaces have a conformally flat, quasi-Einstein centroaffine metric and a pseudo-parallel cubic form relative to the Levi-Civita connection of the centroaffine metric. As the main results, they find a geometric characterization of those hypersurfaces as not being of constant sectional curvature, and they further classify these hypersurfaces.