Define and, elsewhere,All first and second partial derivatives exist at the origin: and . Thus its Hessian matrix there is the positive-definite matrix . Nevertheless and for , so the origin is a saddle point of a scalar function. A valid second-derivative test needs a second-order Taylor expansion with a remainder ; continuous second partial derivatives in a neighborhood are a sufficient hypothesis. Existence of those derivatives at the point alone does not supply this hypothesis.
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