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Geometry of the free-sliding Bernoulli beam

Giovanni Moreno, Monika Ewa Stypa (2016)

Communications in Mathematics

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If a variational problem comes with no boundary conditions prescribed beforehand, and yet these arise as a consequence of the variation process itself, we speak of the free boundary values variational problem. Such is, for instance, the problem of finding the shortest curve whose endpoints can slide along two prescribed curves. There exists a rigorous geometric way to formulate this sort of problems on smooth manifolds with boundary, which we review here in a friendly self-contained...

A variational construction of chaotic trajectories for a Hamiltonian system on a torus

S. V. Bolotin, P. H. Rabinowitz (1998)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

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A geometric criterion for the existence of chaotic trajectories of a Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom and the configuration space a torus is given. As an application, positive topological entropy is established for a double pendulum problem.