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Results tagged with calculus-of-variations
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Questions on the calculus of variations, which deals with the optimization of functionals mostly defined on infinite dimensional spaces.
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Are geodesics locally minimizing in continuous curves?
In every lecture on Riemannian geometry it is standard to prove that geodesic curves are locally length minimizing.
The only thing I find confusing about this is, that here length minimizing means: co …
