We present a representation formula for discrete indefinite affine spheres via loop group factorizations. This formula is derived from the Birkhoff decomposition of loop groups associated with discrete indefinite affine spheres. In particular we show that a discrete indefinite improper affine sphere can be constructed from two discrete plane curves.
Asymptotic net is an important concept in discrete differential geometry. In this paper, we show that we can associate affine discrete geometric concepts to an arbitrary non-degenerate asymptotic net. These concepts include discrete affine area, mean curvature, normal and co-normal vector fields and cubic form, and they are related by structural and compatibility equations. We consider also the particular cases of affine minimal surfaces and affine spheres.
We introduce a variational setting for the action functional of an autonomous and indefinite Lagrangian on a finite dimensional manifold. Our basic assumption is the existence of an infinitesimal symmetry whose Noether charge is the sum of a one-form and a function. Our setting includes different types of Lorentz-Finsler Lagrangians admitting a timelike Killing vector field.
We study hyper-spheres, spheres and circles, with respect to an indefinite metric, in a tangent space on a 4-dimensional differentiable manifold. The manifold is equipped with a positive definite metric and an additional tensor structure of type (1, 1)11. The fourth power of the additional structure is minus identity and its components form a skew-circulant matrix in some local coordinate system. The both structures are compatible and they determine an associated indefinite metric on the manifold.
Indefinite affine hyperspheres admitting a pointwise symmetry
一个仿射超曲面M称为点态对称,如果对M中的所有p,存在Aut(T_p M)的子群G,它(点态)保持仿射度量h,差张量K和仿射形状算子S.在这里,我们考虑三维不定仿射超球面,即S= H Id(因此S是平凡保持的)。首先我们解决一个代数问题。在等距群SO(1,2)的作用下,我们确定了Lorentz-Minkowski空间R^3_1上无迹三次型的非平凡稳定子G,并找到了每个SO(1,2)/G-轨道的代表。由于仿射三次型是由h和K定义的,这给了我们可能的对称群G和每个G的K的标准型。其次,我们对所有非平凡稳定子G(除Z_2外)具有点态G-对称性的超球面进行了分类。除了著名的超球(对于Z_2 x Z_2 resp. R的超球面具有常截面曲率和Pick不变量J<0。J=0,我们得到了丰富的新的例子,例如,二维仿射球的翘曲积结构(分别)。二次曲面)和曲线。此外,我们还找到了一种由二维二次曲面或正定仿射球面构造不定仿射超球面的方法。
In this paper we are interested in defining affine structures on discrete quadrangular surfaces of the affine three-space. We introduce, in a constructive way, two classes of such surfaces, called respectively indefinite and definite surfaces. The underlying meshes for indefinite surfaces are asymptotic nets satisfying a non-degeneracy condition, while the underlying meshes for definite surfaces are non-degenerate conjugate nets satisfying a certain natural condition. In both cases we associate to any of these nets several discrete affine invariant quantities: a metric, a normal and a co-norma…
For every proper convex cone $K \subset \mathbb R^3$ there exists a unique complete hyperbolic affine 2-sphere with mean curvature $-1$ which is asymptotic to the boundary of the cone. Two cones are associated if the corresponding affine spheres can be mapped to each other by an orientation-preserving isometry. This equivalence relation is generated by the groups $SL(3,\mathbb R)$ and $S^1$, where the former acts by linear transformations of the ambient space, and the latter by multiplication of the cubic holomorphic differential of the affine sphere by unimodular complex constants. The action…
Given a Lagrangian submanifold $L$ of the affine symplectic $2n$-space, one can canonically and uniquely define a center-chord and a special improper affine sphere of dimension $2n$, both of whose sets of singularities contain $L$. Although these improper affine spheres (IAS) always present other singularities away from $L$ (the off-shell singularities studied in our previous paper), they may also present singularities other than $L$ which are arbitrarily close to $L$, the so called singularities "on shell". These on-shell singularities possess a hidden $\mathbb Z_2$ symmetry that is absent fr…
In this paper we define the class of constant affine mean curvature (CAMC) discrete asymptotic nets, which contains the well-known classes of affine spheres and affine minimal asymptotic nets. This class is defined by considering fields of compatible interpolating quadrics, i.e., quadrics that have common tangent planes at the edges of the net. We show that, for CAMC asymptotic nets, ruled discrete asymptotic nets is equivalent to ruled compatible interpolating quadrics. Moreover, we prove discrete counterparts of some known properties of the Demoulin transform of a smooth CAMC surface.
The classical result of describing harmonic maps from surfaces into symmetric spaces of reductive Lie groups states that the Maurer-Cartan form with an additional parameter, the so-called loop parameter, is integrable for all values of the loop parameter. As a matter of fact, the same result holds for $k$-symmetric spaces over reductive Lie groups. In this survey we will show that to each of the five different types of real forms for a loop group of $A_2^{(2)}$ there exists a surface class, for which some frame is integrable for all values of the loop parameter if and only if it belongs to one…
Let $Δ$ be a 2-sphere endowed with an affine structure away from a finite set of points $P \subset Δ$, and assume that the monodromy of the associated connection $\nabla$ on $Δ\setminus P$ around any point from $P$ is unipotent. I show that there exists a pseudo-metric tensor with distribution coefficients on $Δ$ that is non-degenerate on $Δ\setminus P$ and that locally is of the form $\nabla d f$ for some convex function $f$. In particular, if $X_\infty$ is the canonical nearby fibre of a Type III degeneration of K3 surfaces in Kulikov form, $Δ_X \cong S^2$ is the dual intersection complex of…
We investigate octonion product deformations coming from the parallelizable torsion of the 7-sphere $S^7$, obtaining a family of geometries from solutions of the Lagrangian formalism movement equations. This can be achieved by analyzing the spontaneous compactification $M_4\times S^7$, where $M_4$ is a Lorentzian $4$-dimensional manifold. Besides the usual Riemannian geometry and two others proposed by Cartan and Schouten, solutions in geometries with torsion and more general seven-dimensional spaces are obtained. Such formalism may by subsequently derived over the 7-sphere $S^7$, locally give…