Towards a geometrical understanding of Douglas's solution of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
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Publication:4290702
DOI10.1088/0266-5611/10/2/005zbMath0826.58015OpenAlexW2093828698MaRDI QIDQ4290702
Geoff Prince, G. B. Byrnes, Eduardo Martínez, Mike Crampin, Willy Sarlet
Publication date: 22 November 1995
Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/43fb28132285a6bf3a5011b7ac297f7b1b6c4fa5
Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)
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