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On operator equations and variational principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. M. Arthurs
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of York

Abstract

A necessary and sufficient condition for operator equations Tϕ = M(u, ϕ), T*u = N(u, ϕ) to arise from a variational principle is presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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