The exponential map for the Lagrange problem on differentiable manifolds

DOI10.1098/rsta.1967.0052zbMath0154.37004OpenAlexW1998877007MaRDI QIDQ5535269

Charles Beresford Rayner

Publication date: 1967

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1967.0052

zbMATH Keywords

variational calculus

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