Minimum Action Curves in Degenerate Finsler Metrics Existence and Properties /

• Main Author: Heymann, Matthias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2134
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry.; Mathematical optimization.; Probabilities.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Optimization.; Mathematics, general.

Presenting a study of geometric action functionals (i.e., non-negative functionals on the space of unparameterized oriented rectifiable curves), this monograph focuses on the subclass of those functionals whose local action is a degenerate type of Finsler metric that may vanish in certain directions...