Hessian Matrix - Vector-valued Functions

Vector-valued Functions

If f is instead a function from, i.e.

then the array of second partial derivatives is not a two-dimensional matrix of size, but rather a tensor of order 3. This can be thought of as a multi-dimensional array with dimensions, which degenerates to the usual Hessian matrix for .

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