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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