Nonnegativity and positivity of quadratic functionals in discrete calculus of variations: survey

DOI10.1080/10236190500137454zbMath1098.49025MaRDI QIDQ5317731

Roman Šimon Hilscher, Vera Zeidan

Publication date: 21 September 2005

Published in: Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10236190500137454

zbMATH Keywords

positivity; second variation; nonnegativity; discrete quadratic functional; linear Hamiltonian difference system; Euler-Lagrange difference equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

39A12: Discrete version of topics in analysis

49K30: Optimality conditions for solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.)