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Let $\Omega$ be an open bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $C^1$ boundary. Let $$ \begin{matrix} F: \mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^{nN} \to \mathbb{R},& \\ (x,z,p) \mapsto F(...

(The same system with slightly different questions has been asked in MSE.) Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be some simply connected planar domain. We seek for a mapping $\mathbf{r}:\Omega\rightarrow \...

I have a very basic question in the calculus of variations: Suppose I want to minimize the functional $$A[r, r'] = \int_\Omega L(r, r') dx $$ When is it possible to say that extremals of $A$ agree ...