Equiaffine geometry of level sets and ruled hypersurfaces with equiaffine mean curvature zero

Abstract

Abstract. Basic aspects of the equiaffine geometry of level sets are developed systematically. As an application there are constructed families of 2n-dimensional nondegenerate hypersurfaces ruled by n-planes, having equiaffine mean curvature zero, and solving the affine normal flow. Each carries a symplectic structure with respect to which the ruling is Lagrangian.