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Main Author: Bryant, Robert L.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06998
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contents A symmetric quadratic form $g$ on a surface~$M$ is said to be locally Hessianizable if each $p\in M$ has an open neighborhood~$U$ on which there exists a local coordinate chart $(x^1,x^2):U\to\mathbb{R}^2$ and a function $f:U\to\mathbb{R}$ such that, on $U$, we have $$ g = \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^i\partial x^j}\,\mathrm{d} x^i\circ\mathrm{d} x^j. $$ In this article, I show that, when $g$ is nondegenerate and smooth, it is always smoothly locally Hessianizable.
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spellingShingle Hessianizability of surface metrics
Bryant, Robert L.
Differential Geometry
53B05, 58A15
A symmetric quadratic form $g$ on a surface~$M$ is said to be locally Hessianizable if each $p\in M$ has an open neighborhood~$U$ on which there exists a local coordinate chart $(x^1,x^2):U\to\mathbb{R}^2$ and a function $f:U\to\mathbb{R}$ such that, on $U$, we have $$ g = \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^i\partial x^j}\,\mathrm{d} x^i\circ\mathrm{d} x^j. $$ In this article, I show that, when $g$ is nondegenerate and smooth, it is always smoothly locally Hessianizable.
title Hessianizability of surface metrics
topic Differential Geometry
53B05, 58A15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06998