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Keywords:
calculus of variations; parametric problems
calculus of variations; parametric problems
Summary:
This paper describes some recent research on parametric problems in the calculus of variations. It explains the relationship between these problems and the type of problem more usual in physics, where there is a given space of independent variables, and it gives an interpretation of the first variation formula in this context in terms of cohomology.
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