Mean-curvature comparison at tangential contact

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Mean-curvature comparison at tangential contact by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Suppose two graph surfaces and are tangent at the origin, are oriented upward, and nearby. Then has a local minimum, so its Hessian matrix is positive semidefinite. At the common horizontal tangent plane,

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