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Gaussian curvature, mean curvature, sectional curvature, scalar curvature, curvature tensors (Riemann, Ricci, Weyl)

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Intuition for mean curvature

I would like to get some intuitive feeling for the mean curvature. The mean curvature of a hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold by definition is the trace of the second fundamental form. …
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