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Mosc. Math. J., 2006 Volume 6, Number 1, Pages 135–152 (Mi mmj240)

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On affine hypersurfaces with everywhere nondegenerate second quadratic form

A. G. Khovanskiia, D. Novikovb

a University of Toronto
b Weizmann Institute of Science

Abstract: An Arnold conjecture claims that a real projective hypersurface with second quadratic form of constant signature $(k,l)$ should separate two projective subspaces of dimension $k$ and $l$ correspondingly. We consider affine versions of the conjecture dealing with hypersurfaces approaching at infinity two shifted halves of a standard cone. We prove that if the halves intersect, then the hypersurface does separate two affine subspaces. In the case of non-intersecting half-cones we construct an example of a surface of negative curvature in $\mathbb R^3$ bounding a domain without a line inside.

Key words and phrases: Arnold conjecture, ($k$, $l$)-hyperbolic hypersurface, convex-concave set.

MSC: 52A30, 53A15

Received: January 26, 2005

Language: English

DOI: 10.17323/1609-4514-2006-6-1-135-152



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