Abstract
In this paper, we study affine spheres which are isotropic and we obtain a complete classification. In particular, we show that all such affine spheres are hyperbolic affine spheres, isometric with SL(3,ℝ)/SO(3), SL(3,ℂ)/SU(3), SU*(6)/Sp(3) or E 6(−26)/F 4.
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The second author is partly supported by Ministry of Science, Serbia, project 174012
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Birembaux, O., Djorić, M. Isotropic affine spheres. Acta. Math. Sin.-English Ser. 28, 1955–1972 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-012-0264-3
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