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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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Extremal curves with a "should pass through" constraint

Partial Answer/Too long for comment. If you are just working in the plane, then intuitively you know already that a length-minimizer exists (so long as you allow self-intersections). Such a solution w …
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