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A Differential Geometry Associated with Dissipative Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M. A. McKiernan
M. A. McKiernan*
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
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Consider the following problem of Lagrange in the calculus of variations: relative to differentiable curves xi(t) satisfying xi(t0) = xi0 and xi(t1) = xi1 find a curve minimizing

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , June 1965 , pp. 433 - 451
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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