The Cauchy problem for improper affine spheres and the Hessian one equation
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Abstract:
We give a conformal representation for improper affine spheres which is used to solve the Cauchy problem for the Hessian one equation. With this representation, we characterize the geodesics of an improper affine sphere, study its symmetries and classify the helicoidal ones. Finally, we obtain the complete classification of the isolated singularities of the Hessian one Monge-Ampère equation.References
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Additional Information
- Juan A. Aledo
- Affiliation: Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 02071 Albacete, Spain
- Email: juanangel.aledo@uclm.es
- Rosa M. B. Chaves
- Affiliation: Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, 05315-970 São Paulo-SP, Brazil
- Email: rosab@ime.usp.br
- José A. Gálvez
- Affiliation: Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Email: jagalvez@ugr.es
- Received by editor(s): June 29, 2005
- Published electronically: April 6, 2007
- Additional Notes: The first and third authors were partially supported by Ministerio de Education y Ciencia Grant No. MTM2004-02746. This work was started while the last author was visiting the IME at the University of Sao Paulo. He would like to thank all members of this institution for their hospitality.
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), 4183-4208
- MSC (2000): Primary 53A15, 35J60; Secondary 53C45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04378-4
- MathSciNet review: 2309181