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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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Minimizing a functional

I have wondered the problem in http://www.helsinki.fi/~hmkokko/Stuff/Esdale/index.html for over year without success. If we try to minimize the functional equation T(\theta ) = \int_0^L\frac {dx}{v_0\ …