Université de Fribourg, Suisse
Faculté des Sciences
Département de mathématiques
Calculus of variations
SP 2020
Patrick Ghanaat SMA.03111
SMA.04111
COVID-19 : Classroom teaching suspended as of Monday, 16 March
Course materials (notes) will appear on Moodle.

Course content

Introduction to one-dimensional variational problems: Euler equations, Noether's Theorem, constrained problems, field theory and sufficient conditions, Jacobi fields, applications.

References

[BGH] Giuseppe Buttazzo, Mariano Giaquinta, Stefan Hildebrandt: One-dimensional variational problems

[GH] Mariano Giaquinta, Stefan Hildebrandt: Calculus of variations I, II