Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/iii/paper-50/1/c/ii/solution

Choose the outward normal vector and the positive convention
The ambient connection vanishes in Cartesian coordinates. Since and , the extrinsic curvature components are , . Taking the trace using the induced metric,
Reversing the normal or using the negative extrinsic-curvature convention gives . The two principal curvatures are and zero in the chosen convention; the averaged mean curvature would be , so it must not be confused with the requested trace.

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