Geradenfamilien, Enveloppen und Evoluten.
We study affine hypersurface immersions , where M is an almost complex n-dimensional manifold. The main purpose is to give a condition for (M,J) to be a special Kähler manifold with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of an affine fundamental form.
In [OV] we introduced an affine curvature tensor R*. Using it we characterized some types of hypersurfaces in the affine space . In this paper we study hypersurfaces for which R* is parallel relative to the induced connection.
We introduce an inequality for graph hypersurfaces and prove a decomposition theorem in case equality holds.
We establish Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms, which in special cases yield some new results for intersection bodies. Moreover, we obtain two monotonicity inequalities for radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms.
We investigate a two-parameter family of relative normals that contains Manhart's one-parameter family and the centroaffine normal. The invariance group of each of these normals is classified, and variational problems are studied. The results are Euler-Lagrange equations for the hypersurfaces that are critical with respect to the area functionals of the induced and semi-Riemannian volume forms and a classification of the critical hyperovaloids in the two-parameter family.
All continuous Minkowski valuations which are compatible with the special linear group are completely classified. One consequence of these classifications is a new characterization of the projection body operator.