Locally symmetric affine hypersurfaces
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Abstract:
The nondegenerate quadratic hypersurfaces and the improper affine hyperspheres are the only nondegenerate hypersurfaces of dimension greater than two of an affine space which are affine locally symmetric with respect to their induced connection.References
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- © Copyright 1985 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 93 (1985), 101-105
- MSC: Primary 53C40; Secondary 53A15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1985-0766537-2
- MathSciNet review: 766537