Elementary Characterization of Classical Minima

DOI10.2307/2320106zbMath0464.49011OpenAlexW4237924740MaRDI QIDQ3915530

John L. Troutman, William J. Hrusa

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2320106

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic problemCauchy-Schwarz vector inequalityPlatean's problemtime of transit problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99)

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