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The purpose of the present paper is to obtain Gartan’s identities for affine principal curvatures of an equiaffine isoparametric hypersurface under certain conditions. The result can be applied to a pseudo-Riemannian isoparametric hypersurface and a Blaschke isoparametric hypersurface.
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Ooguri, M. On Cartan’s identities of equiaffine isoparametric hypersurfaces. Results. Math. 46, 79–90 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322872
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