Indefinite affine hyperspheres admitting a pointwise symmetry. II

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.097zbMATH Open1189.53012arXivmath/0510531MaRDI QIDQ970285FDOQ970285

Christine Scharlach

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An affine hypersurface M is said to admit a pointwise symmetry, if there exists a subgroup G of Aut(T_p M) for all p in M, which preserves (pointwise) the affine metric h, the difference tensor K and the affine shape operator S. Here, we consider 3-dimensional indefinite affine hyperspheres, i.e. S= H Id (and thus S is trivially preserved). First we solve an algebraic problem. We determine the non-trivial stabilizers G of a traceless cubic form on a Lorentz-Minkowski space R^3_1 under the action of the isometry group SO(1,2) and find a representative of each SO(1,2)/G-orbit. Since the affine cubic form is defined by h and K, this gives us the possible symmetry groups G and for each G a canonical form of K. Next, we classify hyperspheres admitting a pointwise G-symmetry for all non-trivial stabilizers G (apart from Z_2). Besides well-known hyperspheres (for Z_2 x Z_2 resp. R the hyperspheres have constant sectional curvature and Pick invariant J<0 resp. J=0 we obtain rich classes of new examples e.g. warped product structures of two-dimensional affine spheres (resp. quadrics) and curves. Moreover, we find a way to construct indefinite affine hyperspheres out of 2-dimensional quadrics or positive definite affine spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510531

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zbMATH Keywords

affine differential geometrywarped productsaffine spherespointwise symmetryaffine hyperspheresindefinite affine metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

Cited In (3)

• On locally strongly convex affine hypersurfaces with parallel cubic form. I
• Indefinite affine hyperspheres admitting a pointwise symmetry. I
• Three-dimensional locally homogeneous Lorentzian affine hyperspheres with constant sectional curvature

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