Abstract
If the (euclidean) Gauss curvature of a surface in 3-space is nowhere vanishing, we have a uniqueaffine normal in every point of the surface and the set of affine normals forms a line congruence. According to the euclidean situation one can discuss existence and degeneration ofaffine focal surfaces. A cylinder of revolution in euclidean space can be characterized by the property, that all normals intersecttwo straight lines. The corresponding property in affine geometry leads to certainaffine surfaces of revolution, whose meridian curves (plane sections through a fixed axis) can be determined. If we assume the affine focal surfaces to coincide (the affine Weingarten endomorphism has double eigenvalues in every point) and degenerate intoone straight line, then the surface is aruled surface the generators of which areparallel to a plane.
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