Parallel surfaces in affine 4-space

linearly full affine immersions with parallel second fundamental form one-degeneracy of affine surface immersions into four-space ruled surfaces in four-space

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Affine differential geometry (53A15)

Abstract: We study affine immersions as introduced by Nomizu and Pinkall. We classify those affine immersions of a surface in 4-space which are degenerate and have vanishing cubic form (i.e. parallel second fundamental form). This completes the classification of parallel surfaces of which the first results were obtained in the beginning of this century by Blaschke and his collaborators.

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In a series of results about the classification of linearly full affine surface immersions \(x: M^2\to \mathbb{R}^m\) \((m\geq 2)\) with vanishing covariant derivative \(\nabla h\) of its (transversally valued) second fundamental form \(h\) the case of \(m= 4\) together with a 1-degenerate \(M^2\), i.e. a Burstin-Mayer tensor field \[ h_{\{X_1, X_2\}}(X, Y):= \textstyle{{1\over 2}}(\text{det}(X_1, X_2, D_{X_1} X, D_{X_2}Y)+ \text{det}(X_1, X_2, D_{X_1} Y, D_{X_2}X)) \] (\(X, Y\in\Gamma(TM^2)\), \(\{X_1, X_2\}\) arbitrary basis of \(\Gamma(TM^2)\)) of rank one was still open. The authors fill this gap by proving that every such immersion must be a ruled surface of one of three very special types. The proof of this fact consists of the use of Cartan's moving frames and suitable adaptions of these frames together with the parametrization.

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