Eigenvalues, Curvature, and Quadratic Forms

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The curvature of a quadratic form is controlled by the eigenvalues of the matrix . Here is a diagonal matrix and so its eigenvalues are simply the elements on the diagonal.

Contributed by: Chris Maes (March 2011)
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