| 
      This article is available for purchase or by subscription. See below.
     
          
            | Abstract |  
            | We algebraically compute all possible sectional curvature values for canonical
 algebraic curvature tensors and use this result to give a method for constructing
 general sectional curvature bounds. We use a well-known method to geometrically
 realize these results to produce a hypersurface with prescribed sectional curvatures
 at a point. By extending our methods, we give a relatively short proof of
 the spectral theorem for self-adjoint operators on a finite-dimensional real
 vector space.
  |  
    
      PDF Access Denied
    
	      We have not been able to recognize your IP address
      216.73.216.99
      as that of a subscriber to this journal.Online access to the content of recent issues is by
      
          subscription, or purchase of single articles.
 
      Please contact your institution's librarian suggesting a subscription, for example by using our
      journal-recommendation form.
      Or, visit our
      subscription page
      for instructions on purchasing a subscription.
       
      You may also contact us at
      contact@msp.orgor by using our
      contact form.
 
      Or, you may purchase this single article for
      USD 30.00:
      
 
          
            | Keywords
                sectional curvature, canonical algebraic curvature tensor,
                spectral theorem
               |  
          
            | Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
                Primary: 15A69
               
                Secondary: 15A63, 53C21
               |  
          
            | Milestones
                Received: 16 October 2019
               
                Revised: 17 March 2020
               
                Accepted: 28 April 2020
               
                Published: 14 July 2020
               
 
                Communicated by Frank Morgan
               |  |