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On affine hypersurfaces with everywhere nondegenerate Second Quadratic Form

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

Consider a closed connected hypersurface in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with constant signature (k,l) of the second quadratic form, and approaching a quadratic cone at infinity. This hypersurface divides Rn\mathbb{R}^n into two pieces. We prove that one of them contains a k-dimensional subspace, and another contains a l-dimensional subspace, thus proving an affine version of Arnold hypothesis. We construct an example of a surface of negative curvature in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with slightly different asymptotical behavior for which the previous claim is wrong.

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@article{arxiv.math/0203202,
  title  = {On affine hypersurfaces with everywhere nondegenerate Second Quadratic Form},
  author = {A. Khovanskii and D. Novikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0203202},
  year   = {2007}
}

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