Arnold's hypothesis on hyperbolic hypersurfaces

A smooth hypersurface in RPn+1\mathbb{RP}^{n+1} is (k,l)(k,l)-hyperbolic if its second quadratic form has signature (k,l)(k,l). Let URPnU\subset\mathbb{R}P^n be a domain bounded by a connected smooth (k,l)(k,l)-hyperbolic hypersurface BB. Arnold's hypothesis. There exist a projective subspace LL_- of dimension kk not intersecting UU and a projective subspace L+L_+ of dimension ll contained in UU. Any projective line joining a point of L+L_+ and a point of LL_- intersects BB at exactly two points. The claim generalizes the corresponding property of quadrics and concerns the existence of complementary projective subspaces controlled by the signature of the second quadratic form. Its resolution status is not specified in the source.

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A. Khovanskii and D. Novikov, “On affine hypersurfaces with everywhere nondegenerate Second Quadratic Form”, arXiv:math/0203202 (2002).

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