Curve straightening and a minimax argument for closed elastic curves

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(85)90046-1zbMath0561.53004OpenAlexW1999296146MaRDI QIDQ2266452

David A. Singer, Joel C. Langer

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(85)90046-1

zbMATH Keywords

Palais-Smale conditionclosed curvesclosed elastic curvestotal squared curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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