Semi-parallelism and parallelism conjecture for locally strongly convex affine hyperspheres

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Let MM be a locally strongly convex affine hypersphere of dimension nn. Its cubic form CC is semi-parallel when hatRC=0hat{R}\cdot C=0 and parallel when hatC=0hat{\nabla}C=0, where hatRhat{R} and hathat{\nabla} are respectively the curvature tensor and Levi-Civita connection of the affine metric.

Semi-parallelism and parallelism conjecture. The two conditions are equivalent:

R^C=0^C=0.\hat{R}\cdot C=0\quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad\hat{\nabla}C=0.

Parallel cubic form always implies semi-parallel cubic form, but the converse is not generally true for affine hypersurfaces. The conjecture asks whether the converse holds for every locally strongly convex affine hypersphere; it extends classification results known in lower-dimensional and special cases.

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Huiyang Xu and Cece Li, “Conformally flat affine hypersurfaces with semi-parallel cubic form”, arXiv:2211.02814 (2022).

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