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Unstable solutions of the Euler equations of certain variational problems

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This paper is a translation of part of the author's Habilitationsschrift accepted by the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule

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Ströhmer, G. Unstable solutions of the Euler equations of certain variational problems. Math Z 186, 179–199 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01161803

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