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Well-posedness of Nonconvex Variational Problems

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In this chapter based on [92,93] we study variational problems in which the values at the end points are also subject to variations. Using the Baire category approach and the porosity notion we show that most variational problems are well posed.

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Zaslavski, A.J. (2013). Well-posedness of Nonconvex Variational Problems. In: Nonconvex Optimal Control and Variational Problems. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 82. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7378-7_4

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