Homogeneous variational problems: a minicourse

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Authors David J. Saunders

Publication date 6 August 2012

Published in Communications in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6004, https://eudml.org/doc/246199

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsparametric problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: A Finsler geometry may be understood as a homogeneous variational problem, where the Finsler function is the Lagrangian. The extremals in Finsler geometry are curves, but in more general variational problems we might consider extremal submanifolds of dimension $m$. In this minicourse we discuss these problems from a geometric point of view.

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