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Affine minimal hypersurfaces of rotation

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We give a complete list of affine minimal surfaces inA 3 with Euclidean rotational symmetry, completing the treatise given in [1] and prove that these surfaces have maximal affine surface area within the class of all affine surfaces of rotation satisfying suitable boundary conditions. Besides we show that for rotationally symmetric locally strongly convex affine minimal hypersurfaces inA n,n≥4, the second variation of the affine surface area is negative definite under certain conditions on the meridian.

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Krauter, P. Affine minimal hypersurfaces of rotation. Geom Dedicata 51, 287–303 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01263997

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