Chern's affine Bernstein conjecture

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Let u ⁣:R2→Ru\colon\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R} be smooth and locally uniformly convex, and suppose its graph is an affine maximal graph, meaning that uu satisfies the affine maximal surface equation

∑i,j=12∂2∂xi∂xj(Uijw)=0,w=[det⁡D2u]−34,\sum_{i,j=1}^{2}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_i\partial x_j}(U^{ij}w)=0, \qquad w=[\det D^2u]^{-\frac{3}{4}},

where U=(Uij)U=(U^{ij}) is the cofactor matrix of D2uD^2u. Chern's conjecture. The graph of uu must be an elliptic paraboloid. This is the two-dimensional affine Bernstein problem; it was proved by Trudinger and Wang in 2000, so the conjecture is solved.

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Nam Q. Le, “The second boundary value problem of the prescribed affine mean curvature equation and related linearized Monge-Ampère equation”, arXiv:1702.08366 (2017).

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