Principal quadratic functionals

Tomastik, E. C.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1976-0405208-8

Principal quadratic functionals
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 218 (1976), 297-309 Request permission

Abstract:

The general theory of the existence of a minimum limit in the fixed and variable end point problems of singular quadratic functionals of n dependent variables is developed, generalizing the one dimensional results of Marston Morse, Walter Leighton and A. D. Martin and completing a phase of the n-dimensional theory initiated recently by the author.

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