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Q81Section II (Mathematics)81 of 190

A local max and a local min of a graph function both give non-negative Gaussian curvature

Let S={(x,y,f(x,y))∈R3∣(x,y)∈U}S=\{(x,y,f(x,y))\in\mathbb{R}^3\mid(x,y)\in U\} where U is open in R2\mathbb{R}^2 and f:U→Rf:U\to\mathbb{R} is smooth. If f admits a local maximum at pp and a local minimum at qq, then the Gaussian curvatures k1k_1 and k2k_2 to S at the points (p,f(p))(p,f(p)) and (q,f(q))(q,f(q)) respectively satisfy:

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