On normal and conormal maps for affine hypersurfaces

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1178227306MaRDI QIDQ1204166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Katsumi Nomizu, Barbara Opozda

Publication date 1 April 1993

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1178227306

zbMATH Keywords

conormal imageellipsoidshyperellipsoidhyperovaloidLaplaciannormal mapovaloids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

Review text

We prove two main results in affine differential geometry that characterize ellipsoids among the ovaloids. The first theorem states that an ovaloid in the 3-dimensional affine space is an ellipsoid if and only if the Laplacian of the normal map is proportional to the normal map. The second theorem says that a hyperovaloid in an affine space of any dimension is a hyperellipsoid if and only if the conormal image (or the normal image) is a hyperellipsoid with center at the origin.

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