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There are different versions of so called affine Bernstein conjectures, stated by Calabi and Chern, resp. In [T-W] the authors present a proof of Chern’s conjecture. In this paper we give an affirmative answer to Calabi’s conjecture.
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dedicated to Prof. S.S. Chern for his 90th birthday
Both authors are partially supported by a NSFC grant and a Chinese-German exchange project of NSFC and DFG
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Li, AM., Jia, F. The Calabi Conjecture on Affine Maximal Surfaces. Results. Math. 40, 265–272 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322711
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322711