Characterisation of Cayley hypersurfaces by affine symmetry and parallel normals

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Let Σ\Sigma be a non-degenerate hypersurface in affine NN-space. Assume that Σ\Sigma admits a transitive Abelian group of affine motions, that its full symmetry group has one-dimensional isotropy, and that its affine normals are everywhere parallel; equivalently, Σ\Sigma is an improper affine hypersphere.

Cayley hypersurface characterisation conjecture. Then, in a suitable affine coordinate system, Σ\Sigma is given by the Cayley hypersurface equation.

The conjecture proposes that these three geometric properties characterise the Cayley hypersurfaces among non-degenerate affine hypersurfaces. The supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been proved or disproved.

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Michael Eastwood and Vladimir Ezhov, “Cayley Hypersurfaces”, arXiv:math/0001134 (2000).

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