Graph immersions with parallel cubic form
Abstract
We consider non-degenerate graph immersions into affine space whose cubic form is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of the affine metric. There exists a correspondence between such graph immersions and pairs , where is an -dimensional real Jordan algebra and is a non-degenerate trace form on . Every graph immersion with parallel cubic form can be extended to an affine complete symmetric space covering the maximal connected component of zero in the set of quasi-regular elements in the algebra . It is an improper affine hypersphere if and only if the corresponding Jordan algebra is nilpotent. In this case it is an affine complete, Euclidean complete graph immersion, with a polynomial as globally defining function. We classify all such hyperspheres up to dimension 5. As a special case we describe a connection between Cayley hypersurfaces and polynomial quotient algebras. Our algebraic approach can be used to study also other classes of hypersurfaces with parallel cubic form.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.1434,
title = {Graph immersions with parallel cubic form},
author = {Roland Hildebrand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1434},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
some proofs have been simplified with respect to the first version