Parallel Locally Strictly Convex Surfaces in Four-Dimensional Affine Space Contained in Hyperquadrics

Abstract

Locally strictly convex surfaces in four-dimensional affine space are studied from a perspective of the affine structure invented by Nuño-Ballesteros and Sánchez, which is especially suitable in convex geometry. The surfaces that are embedded in locally strictly convex hyperquadrics are classified under assumptions that the second fundamental form is parallel with respect to the induced connection and the normal connection is compatible with a metric on the transversal bundle. Both connections are induced by a canonical transversal plane bundle, which is defined by certain symmetry conditions. The obtained surfaces are always products of an ellipse and a conical planar curve.

Keywords

• affine metric
• strictly convex surface
• symmetric equiaffine transversal bundle
• antisymmetric equiaffine transversal bundle
• hyperquadric