A unique graph of minimal elastic energy
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Publication:3420389
DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-06-04315-7zbMath1110.58009MaRDI QIDQ3420389
Joseph W. Jerome, Anders Linnér
Publication date: 1 February 2007
Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)
elastic energy; phase constraints; Euler-Lagrange equation; obstacle; pendulum equation; Hamiltonian global minimum; one-dimensional Willmore equation
49J30: Existence of optimal solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.)
58Z05: Applications of global analysis to the sciences
58E25: Applications of variational problems to control theory
