Harmonic Gauss maps and Codazzi tensors for affine hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/BF01191173MaRDI QIDQ2640152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yi-Bing Shen

Publication date 1990

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01191173

zbMATH Keywords

equiaffine hypersurfaceequiaffine mean curvatureGauss mapWeingarten operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Affine differential geometry (53A15)

Review text

The author proves the following affine analogue of the well known result of \textit{E. A. Ruh} and \textit{J. Vilms} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 149, 569-573 (1970; Zbl 0199.561)]: Let x be an equiaffine hypersurface with regular equiaffine Weingarten operator B. Then the author gives a necessary and sufficient condition that the equiaffine Gauss map is harmonic. One corollary given is the following result: Let x and B be as above. Then x is an affine sphere if and only if the Gauss map is harmonic and the equiaffine mean curvature is constant.

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