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In our previous chapter we showed that the determination of the extrema, such as the minima, of a function, is central to the calculus of variations. An extreme value problem in its most general form can be understood to be the following.
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Blanchard, P., Brüning, E. (1992). Direct Methods of the Calculus of Variations. In: Variational Methods in Mathematical Physics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82698-6_2
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