Branching solutions to one-dimensional variational problems

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Branching solutions to one-dimensional variational problems

A.O. Ivanov & A.A. Tuzhilin

World Scientific, c2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book deals with the new class of one-dimensional variational problems — the problems with branching solutions. Instead of extreme curves (mappings of a segment to a manifold) we investigate extreme networks, which are mappings of graphs (one-dimensional cell complexes) to a manifold. Various applications of the approach are presented, such as several generalizations of the famous Steiner problem of finding the shortest network spanning given points of the plane.

Table of Contents

  • Preliminary results
  • networks extremality criteria
  • linear networks in RN
  • extremals of length type functionals - the case of parametric networks
  • extremals of functionals generated by norms.

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