21-742 Calculus Of Variations

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Classical fixed endpoint examples. Fixed endpoint problems in classes of absolutely continuous functions existence via lower semicontinuity. Tonellis existence theorem. EulerLagrange and DuBois Reymond equations, transversality conditions, Weierstrass field theory, HamiltonJacobi theory. Problems with constraints. Three 50 minute lectures

Prerequisites: 21-373 (min B) and 21-355 (min B)

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