Functions dividing their Hessian determinants and affine spheres

DOI10.4310/AJM.2016.V20.N3.A5zbMATH Open1356.53012arXiv1307.5394MaRDI QIDQ317511FDOQ317511

Authors: Daniel J. F. Fox 

Publication date: 30 September 2016

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nonzero level sets of a homogeneous, logarithmically homogeneous, or translationally homogeneous function are affine spheres if and only if the Hessian determinant of the function is a multiple of a power or an exponential of the function. In particular, the nonzero level sets of a homogeneous polynomial are proper affine spheres if some power of it equals a nonzero multiple of its Hessian determinant. The relative invariants of real forms of regular irreducible prehomogeneous vector spaces yield many such polynomials which are moreover irreducible. For example, the nonzero level sets of the Cayley hyperdeterminant are affine spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5394

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zbMATH Keywords

affine spherehyperdeterminantprehomogeneous vector spaceMonge-Ampère equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Prehomogeneous vector spaces (11S90)

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