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Lagrangian mechanics without ordinary differential equations (English)
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3 April 2008
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This article provides a direct variational proof of existence and uniqueness of the solution for a local boundary value problem, using a regularization procedure from [\textit{C. Cuell} and \textit{G. W. Patrick}, Discretizations of Lagrangian mechanics, in preparation] for a similar problem in the context of discrete Lagrangian systems. This procedure replaces the original problem by a variational problem which is regular under certain conditions. Then the infinite-dimensional Morse lemma and infinite-dimensional implicit function theorem give the result.
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existence
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uniqueness
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Morse lemma
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infinite-dimensional implicit function theorem
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