Lagrangian mechanics without ordinary differential equations (Q2480643)

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.