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Endpoint Conditions; Jacobi Equations and the 2nd Variation; the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation

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We consider a variational problem (I, ω; φ) with one independent variable on a manifold X.

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Griffiths, P.A. (1983). Endpoint Conditions; Jacobi Equations and the 2nd Variation; the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation. In: Exterior Differential Systems and the Calculus of Variations. Progress in Mathematics, vol 25. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8166-6_6

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