Consider a "bump surface" which looks like the following:
Such a surface is rotationally symmetric, $C^2$-smooth, has positive curvature in the middle and negative curvature along the ring (the orange region in the picture). I don't really care what happens past that (it could flatten out, or oscillate, etc.)
Here are two examples, as surfaces of revolution in $\mathbb R^3$ in cylindrical coordinates:
$z(r) = e^{-r^2/2}$ and $z(r) = \tfrac{2}{\pi} \cos(\tfrac{\pi}{2} r)$.
I need to do some Riemannian geometry on a bump surface; in particular, analyze a Jacobi field along a radial geodesic $\gamma$. I don't care what bump surface I use; it only has to feature both positive and negative curvature. For any surface of revolution, it's easy to write down a formula for the scalar curvature $K$ (see p. 142 of McCleary's Geometry from a differentiable viewpoint), and the Jacobi equation takes the form $J'' + KJ|\dot\gamma|^2 = 0$. Thus, if the scalar curvature has a simple form, then the Jacobi equation should be easy to solve. In the case of these two examples, the scalar curvature isn't particularly pretty, hence analyzing the Jacobi equation is difficult (though not intractable).
My question to the MathOverflow community: is there a better bump surface than the two examples I gave above, for which the scalar curvature has a particularly simple form?
Edit: The curvatures for the surfaces given above are
$K(r) = \frac{2 (1 - r)}{(e^{r^2/2} + r^2 e^{-r^2/2})^2}$ and $K(r) = \frac{\pi \sin(\pi r)}{2 r (1 + \sin^2(\pi r/2))^2}$,
respectively. As you can see, they're not the worst expressions possible, but they're also not as simple as I'd like them to be.