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The Index of an Extremal Arc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

William Karush
William Karush*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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We are concerned with extremal arcs for the problem of minimizing a function

over a class of parametric curves C in ay-space of the form

and satisfying end conditions of the type

The components ah are constants and the functions g, yis, and/are given, with the last function positively homogeneous of degree one.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 4 , 1952 , pp. 281 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1952

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