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21-742 Calculus of Variations
12 units
Classical fixed endpoint examples. Fixed endpoint problems in classes of absolutely continuous functions: existence via lower semicontinuity. Tonelli's existence theorem. Euler-Lagrange and DuBois Reymond equations, transversality conditions, Weierstrass field theory, Hamilton-Jacobi theory. Problems with constraints.
Prerequisite: 21-630.
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