A characterization of osculating maps
A holomorphic representation formula for special parabolic hyperspheres is given.
We study the complex hypersurfaces which together with their transversal bundles have the property that around any point of M there exists a local section of the transversal bundle inducing a ∇-parallel anti-complex shape operator S. We give a class of examples of such hypersurfaces with an arbitrary rank of S from 1 to [n/2] and show that every such hypersurface with positive type number and S ≠ 0 is locally of this kind, modulo an affine isomorphism of .
We give a pointwise characterization of semi-∇-flat functions on an affine manifold (M,∇).
This paper is part of the autumn school on "Variational problems and higher order PDEs for affine hypersurfaces". We discuss affine Bernstein problems and complete constant mean curvature surfaces in equiaffine differential geometry.
We study affine nondegenerate Blaschke hypersurfaces whose shape operators are parallel with respect to the induced Blaschke connections. We classify such surfaces and thus give an exact classification of extremal locally symmetric surfaces, first described by F. Dillen.