Geometric conditions for the positive definiteness of the second variation in one-dimensional problems
Given a functional for a one-dimensional physical system, a classical problem is to minimize it by finding stationary solutions and then checking the positive definiteness of the second variation. Establishing the positive definiteness is, in general, analytically untractable. However, we show here...
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IOP Publishing
2017
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