The Euler and Weierstrass conditions for nonsmooth variational problems

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-87

  Ioffe, A D ^a   Rockafellar, R T ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0001812895     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01322309     Document Type: Article

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