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Bernstein problem for affine maximal type equation
has been a core problem in affine geometry. A conjecture (Version I in Section 1) initially proposed by Chern (Proc. Japan-United States Sem., Tokyo, 1977, 17-30) for entire graph with \(N=2, \theta =3/4\) and then was strengthened by Trudinger-Wang (Invent. Math., 140, 2000, 399-422) to its full generality (Version II), which asserts that any Euclidean complete, affine maximal, locally uniformly convex \(C^4\)-hypersurface in \({\mathbb {R}}^{N+1}\) must be an elliptic paraboloid. At the same time, the Chern’s conjecture was solved completely by Trudinger-Wang in dimension two. Soon after, the Affine Bernstein Conjecture (Version III) for affine complete affine maximal hypersurfaces was also shown by Trudinger-Wang in (Invent. Math., 150, 2002, 45-60). Thereafter, the Bernstein problem has morphed into a broader conjectures for any dimension \(N\ge 2\) and any positive constant \(\theta >0\). The Bernstein theorem of Trudinger-Wang was then generalized by Li-Jia (Results Math., 56 2009, 109-139) to \(N=2, \theta \in (3/4,1]\) (see also Zhou (Calc. Var. PDEs., 43 2012, 25-44) for a different proof). In the past twenty years, much effort was done toward higher dimensional issues but not really successful yet, even for the case of dimension \(N=3\). Recently, counter examples were found in (J. Differential Equations, 269 (2020), 7429-7469), toward the Full Bernstein Problem IV for \(N\ge 3,\theta \in (1/2,(N-1)/N)\) and using a much more complicated argument. In this paper, we will construct explicitly various new Euclidean complete affine maximal type hypersurfaces which are not elliptic paraboloid for the improved range
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The author would like to express his deepest gratitude to Professors Xi-Ping Zhu, Kai-Seng Chou, Xu-Jia Wang, and Neil Trudinger for their constant encouragement and warm-hearted help. This paper is also dedicated to the memory of Professor Dong-Gao Deng. Special thanks are also owed to anonymous referees whose suggestions and comments have improved the presentations of this article.
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Du, SZ. Non-quadratic Euclidean Complete Affine Maximal Type Hypersurfaces for \(\theta \in (0,(N-1)/N]\). J Geom Anal 34, 229 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01678-7
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