The variational problem for a certain space-time functional defined on planar closed curves

DOI10.1016/j.jde.2012.01.020zbMath1241.53058MaRDI QIDQ414805

Shinya Okabe

Publication date: 11 May 2012

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2012.01.020

zbMATH Keywords

variational problem; space; initial final value problem; time functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34B15: Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations

35A15: Variational methods applied to PDEs

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

35G20: Nonlinear higher-order PDEs

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

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