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Mean-curvature comparison at tangential contact
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Area of mathematics
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Differential geometry
Gauss map
Second fundamental form
Fundamental forms of a graph surface
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Suppose two graph surfaces
z
=
f
(
x
,
y
)
and
z
=
g
(
x
,
y
)
are tangent at the origin, are oriented upward, and
g
≥
f
nearby. Then
g
−
f
has a local minimum, so its
Hessian matrix
is
positive semidefinite
. At the common horizontal tangent plane,
H
g
−
H
f
=
2
1
tr
Hess
(
g
−
f
)
≥
0.
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