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Title: Aspects of the inverse problem to the calculus of variations (English)
Author: Anderson, Ian M.
Language: English
Journal: Archivum Mathematicum
ISSN: 0044-8753 (print)
ISSN: 1212-5059 (online)
Volume: 24
Issue: 4
Year: 1988
Pages: 181-202
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Category: math
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MSC: 58E30
idZBL: Zbl 0674.58017
idMR: MR983236
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Date available: 2008-06-06T06:19:14Z
Last updated: 2012-05-09
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/107326
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