Planar loops with prescribed curvature: Existence, multiplicity and uniqueness results

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10915-8zbMath1242.53004MaRDI QIDQ3104465

Roberta Musina

Publication date: 13 December 2011

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

loop; minimal energy; prescribed curvature; space of periodic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J10: Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

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