Affine umbilical surfaces inR 4

Summary A surface in ℝ⁴ is called affine umbilical if for each vector belonging to the affine normal plane the corresponding shape operator is a multiple of the identity. We will classify affine umbilical definite surfaces which either have constant curvature or which satisfy ∇^⊥ g ^⊥. Furthermore, it will be shown that for an affine umbilical definite surface, the affine mean curvature vector can not have constant non-zero length. The last author is a Senior Research Assistant of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) This article was processed by the author using the Springer-Verlag TEX PJour1g macro package 1991.     

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