Calculus of variations on time scales: Weak local piecewise C rd1 solutions with variable endpoints

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 143-166

  Hilscher, Roman ^a,b   Zeidan, Vera ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Calculus of variations; Coercivity; Euler Lagrange equation; First variation; Nonnegativity; Quadratic functional; Second variation; Transversality condition; Weak local minimum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346946902     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2003.09.031     Document Type: Article

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