Conjugate points in Euler's elastic problem

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Authors Yu L. Sachkov

Publication date 7 May 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10)

Abstract: For the classical Euler's elastic problem, conjugate points are described. Inflectional elasticae admit the first conjugate point between the first and the third inflection points. All the rest elasticae do not have conjugate points.

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