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,
The same contact does not order Gaussian curvature, because determinant is not monotone under addition of a positive-semidefinite matrix when the original Hessian is indefinite or negative definite. For example,satisfy and are tangent at zero, but .
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