Global Affine Differential Geometry of Hypersurfaces

This book draws a colorful and widespread picture of global affine hypersurface theory up to the most recent state. Moreover, the recent development revealed that affine differential geometry ? as differential geometry in general ? has an exciting intersection area with other fields of interest, like partial differential equations, global analysis, convex geometry and Riemann surfaces.
The second edition of this monograph leads the reader from introductory concepts to recent research. Since the publication of the first edition in 1993 there appeared important new contributions, like the solutions of two different affine Bernstein conjectures, due to Chern and Calabi, respectively. Moreover, a large subclass of hyperbolic affine spheres were classified in recent years, namely the locally strongly convex Blaschke hypersurfaces that have parallel cubic form with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of the Blaschke metric. The authors of this book present such results and new methods of proof.

About the author

Z. Hu, Zhenzhou Univ., China; A.-M. Li, Sichuan Univ./Chinese AoS, China; U. Simon, TU Berlin, Germany; G. Zhao, Sichuan Univ., China.

Product details

• Authors: Zejun Hu, An-Mi Li, An-Min Li, Ud Simon, Udo Simon, Guosong Zhao, Guosong et al Zhao
• Publisher: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• No. of pages: 367
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 244 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 753 g
• Illustrations: 5 Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen
• Series: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics; De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries