Note on the numerical construction of geodesics and ray paths

DOI10.1090/QAM/1262326MaRDI QIDQ4288936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carl E. Pearson

Publication date 25 September 1994

Published in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1262326

zbMATH Keywords

variational problemboundary value problemEuler equationsgeodesicshortest path

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Numerical analysis in abstract spaces (65J99) Numerical methods in optimal control (49M99)

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