Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The centroaffine Bernstein conjecture for hyperbolic centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces predicts that nonnegative Ricci curvature together with either Euclidean or centroaffine completeness forces the hypersurface to lie in Wang's class. We disprove it by systematically studying Calabi compositions: we develop a general geometric method for constructing complete centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces and apply it to construct two families that violate this rigidity. The first family is Euclidean complete but has incomplete centroaffine metric, nonnegative Ricci curvature, and positive Gauss curvature in dimension two; iterating the composition with a point gives examples in every dimension $n\ge2$. The second family is flat and complete in both metrics in dimension three, and iteration yields examples in every dimension $n\ge3$. Thus the centroaffine Bernstein conjecture fails under Euclidean completeness for $n\ge2$ and under centroaffine completeness for $n\ge3$.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Xing, Cheng, Sun, Yalin, Xu, Ruiwei
Institution: Henan Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Mathematics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G2778054725, G3956663733, G4326249541
OpenAlex ID: W7221021592