Branching Solutions to One-Dimensional Variational Problems
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; World Scientific
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9789810240608
Subjects: Calculus of variations; Differential & Riemannian geometry; Topology; Mathematics; Differential Geometry; Topology - General; Science/Mathematics; Calculus; Geometry - Differential; Extremal problems (Mathematics; Extremal problems (Mathematics); Steiner systems
First sentence: To generalize the Classical Variational Problem to the case when the boundary set M consists of more than two points, first of all we need to define an analogue of a curve for which M can be considered as its boundary.