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We disprove the centroaffine Bernstein conjecture for hyperbolic centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces by constructing counterexamples using Calabi compositions. These counterexamples are complete centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces that violate the conjecture's prediction of lying in Wang's class under nonnegative Ricci curvature and completeness. Specifically, we present families of hypersurfaces that are Euclidean complete but centroaffine incomplete, or flat and complete in both metrics, demonstrating the conjecture's failure for $n \ge 2$ and $n \ge 3$ respectively.
Complete centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature can fail to be in Wang's class, even under Euclidean completeness.
The centroaffine Bernstein conjecture for hyperbolic centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces predicts that nonnegative Ricci curvature together with either Euclidean or centroaffine completeness forces the hypersurface to lie in Wang's class. We disprove it by systematically studying Calabi compositions: we develop a general geometric method for constructing complete centroaffine extremal hypersurfaces and apply it to construct two families that violate this rigidity. The first family is Euclidean complete but has incomplete centroaffine metric, nonnegative Ricci curvature, and positive Gauss curvature in dimension two; iterating the composition with a point gives examples in every dimension $n\ge2$. The second family is flat and complete in both metrics in dimension three, and iteration yields examples in every dimension $n\ge3$. Thus the centroaffine Bernstein conjecture fails under Euclidean completeness for $n\ge2$ and under centroaffine completeness for $n\ge3$.