Singularities of Blaschke normal maps of convex surfaces

We prove that the difference between the numbers of positive swallowtails and negative swallowtails of the Blaschke normal map for a given convex surface in affine space is equal to the Euler number of the subset where the affine shape operator has negative determinant.     

Improper affine maps

We study a class of improper affine spheres with singularities called improper affine maps. New examples of genus 0 and 1 are described and the classification of complete improper affine maps with at most two embedded ends will be given.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53A15, 53A35Research partially supported by MCYT-FEDER Grant No. BFM2001-3318 and Junta de Andalucía CEC: FQM0804.     

Left-symmetric algebras and homogeneous improper affine spheres

The nonzero level sets in n-dimensional flat affine space of a translationally homogeneous function are improper affine spheres if and only if the Hessian determinant of the function is equal to a nonzero constant multiple of the nth power of the function. The exponentials of the characteristic polynomials of certain left-symmetric algebras yield examples of such functions whose level sets are analogues of the generalized Cayley hypersurface of Eastwood–Ezhov. There are found purely algebraic conditions sufficient for the characteristic polynomial of the left-symmetric algebra to have the desired properties. Precisely, it suffices that the algebra has triangularizable left multiplication operators and the trace of the right multiplication is a Koszul form for which right multiplication by the dual idempotent is projection along its kernel, which equals the derived Lie subalgebra of the left-symmetric algebra.     

Cyclic homology of affine hypersurfaces with isolated Singularities

We consider reduced, affine hypersurfaces with only isolated singularities. We give an explicit computation of the Hodge-components of their cyclic homology in terms of de Rham cohomology and torsion modules of differentials for large n. It turns out that the vector spaces HC_n(A) are finite dimensional for n ≥ N − 1.     

Preserving affine baire classes by perfect affine maps

Let ? : X → Y be an affine continuous surjection between compact convex sets. Suppose that the canonical copy of the space of real-valued affine continuous functions on Y in the space of real-valued affine continuous functions on X is complemented. We show that if F is a topological vector space, then f : Y → F is of affine Baire class α whenever the composition f ? ? is of affine Baire class α. This abstract result is applied to extend known results on affine Baire classes of strongly affine Baire mappings.     

Singularities of secant maps of immersed surfaces

The secant map of an immersion sends a pair of points to the direction of the line joining the images of the points under the immersion. The germ of the secant map of a generic codimension-c immersion $X\!\!:{\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb R}^{n+c}The secant map of an immersion sends a pair of points to the direction of the line joining the images of the points under the immersion. The germ of the secant map of a generic codimension-c immersion X:\mathbb Rⁿ ? \mathbb R^n+cX\!\!:{\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb R}^{n+c} at the diagonal in the source is a \mathbb Z₂{\mathbb Z}_2 stable map-germ \mathbb R²ⁿ ? \mathbb R^n+c-1{\mathbb R}^{2n} \to {\mathbb R}^{n+c-1} in the following cases: (i) c≥ 2 and (2n,n + c − 1) is a pair of dimensions for which the \mathbb Z₂{\mathbb Z}_2 stable germs of rank at least n are dense, and (ii) for generically immersed surfaces (i.e., n = 2 and any c≥ 1). In the latter surface case the A^{\mathbb Z₂}{\mathcal A}^{{\mathbb Z}_2}-classification of germs of secant maps at the diagonal is described and it is related to the A{\mathcal A}-classification of certain singular projections of the surfaces.     

Strongly convex set-valued maps

We introduce the notion of strongly $t$ -convex set-valued maps and present some properties of it. In particular, a Bernstein–Doetsch and Sierpiński-type theorems for strongly midconvex set-valued maps, as well as a Kuhn-type result are obtained. A representation of strongly $t$ -convex set-valued maps in inner product spaces and a characterization of inner product spaces involving this representation is given. Finally, a connection between strongly convex set-valued maps and strongly convex sets is presented.     

Generalized convex set-valued maps

The aim of this paper is to show that under a mild semicontinuity assumption (the so-called segmentary epi-closedness), the cone-convex (respectively, cone-quasiconvex) set-valued maps can be characterized in terms of weak cone-convexity (respectively, weak cone-quasiconvexity), i.e., the notions obtained by replacing in the classical definitions the conditions of type “for all x,y in the domain and for all t in ]0,1[…” by the corresponding conditions of type “for all x,y in the domain there exists t in ]0,1[….”     

A geometric representation of improper indefinite affine spheres with singularities

Given a pair of planar curves, one can define its generalized area distance, a concept that generalizes the area distance of a single curve. In this paper, we show that the generalized area distance of a pair of planar curves is an improper indefinite affine spheres with singularities, and, reciprocally, every indefinite improper affine sphere in ${\mathbb {R}^3}$ is the generalized distance of a pair of planar curves. Considering this representation, the singularity set of the improper affine sphere corresponds to the area evolute of the pair of curves, and this fact allows us to describe a clear geometric picture of the former. Other symmetry sets of the pair of curves, like the affine area symmetry set and the affine envelope symmetry set can be also used to describe geometric properties of the improper affine sphere.     

Geometrical maps in ring affine geometries

The aim of this work is to investigate the validity of the fundamental theorem of affine geometry over rings with an invariant basis number.     

On residue maps for affine curves

We establish several compatibility results between residue maps in étale and Galois cohomology that arise naturally in the analysis of smooth affine algebraic curves having good reduction over discretely valued fields. These results are needed, and in fact have already been used, for the study of finiteness properties of the unramified cohomology of function fields of affine curves over number fields.     

Singularities of Anti de Sitter torus Gauss maps

We study timelike surfaces in Anti de Sitter 3-space as an application of singularity theory. We define two mappings associated to a timelike surface which are called Anti de Sitter nullcone Gauss image and Anti de Sitter torus Gauss map. We also define a family of functions named Anti de Sitter null height function on the timelike surface. We use this family of functions as a basic tool to investigate the geometric meanings of singularities of the Anti de Sitter nullcone Gauss image and the Anti de Sitter torus Gauss map.     

Enclosed convex hypersurfaces with maximal affine area

In this paper we study the regularity of closed, convex surfaces which achieve maximal affine area among all the closed, convex surfaces enclosed in a given domain in the Euclidean 3-space. We prove the C^1,α regularity for general domains and C^1,1 regularity if the domain is uniformly convex. This work is supported by the Australian Research Council. Research of Sheng was also supported by ZNSFC No. 102033. On leave from Zhejiang University.     

Regular cyclic coverings of regular affine maps

The regular coverings of regular affine algebraic maps are considered, and a large family of totally ramified coverings—the so-called Steinberg and Accola coverings—are fully classified.     

Some notes about affine diameters of convex figures

Given a pointx in a convex figureM, let(x) denote the number of all affine diameters ofM passing throughx. It is shown that, for a convex figureM, the following conditions are equivalent.