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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 50 1 c ii Solution by
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Choose the outward normal vector and the positive conventionThe 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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