Differentiability properties of the minimal average action (Q1894806): Difference between revisions

The paper studies the minimal average action for a variational problem on the \((n + 1)\)-torus under the Legendre and some growth conditions for the integrand. The minimization of the variational integral is considered with respect to compactly supported variations. Among other things the author gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the differentiability of the minimal average action \(A(\alpha)\) at an arbitrary rotation vector \(\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^n\). The study of the minimal average action is motivated from solid state physics.