Locally nearly spherical surfaces are almost-positively \(c-\)curved (Q390188)

The authors show that if a smooth surface \(S\) has Gauss curvature \(K\) such that \(\text{min}_S K = 1\), then there exists a small universal constant \(\eta > 0\) such that, if \(\|K - 1\|_{C^2(S)} \leq \eta\) (where \(\|\cdot \|_{C^2(S)}\) denotes the standard \(C^2\) norm of at least \(C^2\) smooth real functions defined on \(S\)), then \(S\) is almost positive \(c\)- curved, in the sense of the \(c\)-curvature, introduced by N. Trudinger in the context of the Monge problem on optimal transport of probability measures.