Elastica in SO(3)

DOI10.1017/S1446788700036417zbMath1128.49019MaRDI QIDQ5439909

Tomasz Popiel, Lyle Noakes

Publication date: 30 January 2008

Published in: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifold; Euler-Lagrange equation; second-order constrained variational problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49Q15: Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

49K10: Optimality conditions for free problems in two or more independent variables

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