The Variational Calculus on Time Scales

DOI10.1051/IJSMDO/2010003MaRDI QIDQ6226085zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Delfim F. M. Torres

Publication date 17 June 2011

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1051/IJSMDO/2010003

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic equations on time scales or measure chains (34N05) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Optimality conditions for free problems in one independent variable (49K05)

Abstract: The discrete, the quantum, and the continuous calculus of variations, have been recently unified and extended by using the theory of time scales. Such unification and extension is, however, not unique, and two approaches are followed in the literature: one dealing with minimization of delta integrals; the other dealing with minimization of nabla integrals. Here we review a more general approach to the calculus of variations on time scales that allows to obtain both delta and nabla results as particular cases.

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