Affine Bernstein rigidity through dimension nine and a smooth dimension-ten counterexample

What OpenAI claims

Proves that every smooth locally uniformly convex affine-maximal graph of dimension three through nine, complete for its induced Euclidean metric, is an elliptic paraboloid. A smooth entire nonquadratic example in dimension ten makes this range sharp. In dimensions three through nine, the paraboloid classification also holds for connected open locally uniformly convex affine-maximal hypersurfaces complete for the affine Berwald–Blaschke metric. (Lean)

Papers (2)

1. A Smooth Nonquadratic Entire Affine Maximal Graph in Dimension Ten

   5 October 2026 · Preprint, not peer reviewed · PDF

   We construct a smooth nonquadratic entire graph in dimension ten that solves the classical affine maximal equation and has positive-definite Hessian everywhere. This gives a smooth counterexample to the entire-graph affine Bernstein assertion in dimension ten. Hessian positivity is pointwise; no global uniform lower bound or completeness of the Berwald–Blaschke metric is asserted.

2. The affine Bernstein theorem in dimensions three through nine

   24 September 2026 · Preprint, not peer reviewed · PDF

   We prove the Euclidean-complete affine Bernstein conjecture in dimensions three through nine: a smooth locally uniformly convex affine maximal graph is an elliptic paraboloid whenever its induced Euclidean metric is complete. The same conclusion holds, without an initial graph assumption, for connected smooth open (noncompact and without boundary) affine-complete locally uniformly convex immersed hypersurfaces that are classically affine maximal in these dimensions.

Status

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