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Sharp sectional curvature bounds and a new proof of The Spectral Theorem

Differential Geometry 2020-07-15 v1

Abstract

We algebraically compute all possible sectional curvature values for canonical algebraic curvature tensors, and use this result to give a method for constructing general sectional curvature bounds. We use a well-known method to geometrically realize these results to produce a hypersurface with prescribed sectional curvatures at a point. By extending our methods, we give a relatively short proof of the Spectral Theorem for self-adjoint operators on a finite dimensional real vector space.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04200,
  title  = {Sharp sectional curvature bounds and a new proof of The Spectral Theorem},
  author = {Maxine Calle and Corey Dunn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04200},
  year   = {2020}
}