%0 Journal Article %T Realisation of special Kaehler manifolds as parabolic spheres %A Oliver Baues %A Vicente Cort¨¦s %J Mathematics %D 1999 %I arXiv %X We prove that any simply connected special Kaehler manifold admits a canonical immersion as a parabolic affine hypersphere. As an application, we associate a parabolic affine hypersphere to any nondegenerate holomorphic function. Also we show that a classical result of Calabi and Pogorelov on parabolic spheres implies Lu's theorem on complete special Kaehler manifolds with a positive definite metric. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911079v1