Elementary Characterization of Classical Minima

DOI10.2307/2320106MaRDI QIDQ3915530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John L. Troutman, William J. Hrusa

Publication date 1981

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2320106

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy-Schwarz vector inequalitygeodesic problemPlatean's problemtime of transit problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Cited in

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• On the Brachistochrone Problem

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