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The Calculusof Variations - University of Minnesota

serve as an excellent means of learning its basic constructions. Minimal Curves, Optics, and Geodesics The minimal curve problem is to find the shortest path between two specified locations. In its simplest manifestation, we are given two distinct points a = (a,α) and b = (b,β) in the plane R2, (2.1)

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