Existence of variationally defined curves with higher order elliptic Lagrangians

P Schrader - Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a method for proving the existence of solutions to a class of one dimensional
variational problems, namely those where the Lagrangian is strongly elliptic. The method is …

Global analysis of one-dimensional variational problems

PJ Schrader - Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2017 - cambridge.org
From the global analytical point of view a one-dimensional variational problem consists in
extremising a differentiable action/cost function f: X→ R, where X is an infinite-dimensional …

Existence of variationally defined curves in complete Riemannian manifolds

P Schrader - arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5414, 2013 - arxiv.org
We present a method for proving the existence of solutions to a class of one dimensional
variational problems. The method is demonstrated by two examples of optimal interpolation …

Interpolation in Riemannian manifolds

S Bhattarai - 2013 - research-repository.uwa.edu.au
Abstract [Truncated abstract] It is a very natural task to connect the dots between patterns of
data we see. This fundamental procedure of connecting the dots, or interpolation, arises in …