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Graph immersions with parallel cubic form

Differential Geometry 2020-04-10 v2

Abstract

We consider non-degenerate graph immersions into affine space An+1\mathbb A^{n+1} 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 (J,γ)(J,\gamma), where JJ is an nn-dimensional real Jordan algebra and γ\gamma is a non-degenerate trace form on JJ. 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 JJ. 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-21T23:21:54.950Z