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A Decoupling Principle in the Calculus of Variations

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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 402 KB
Volume: 172
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-247X
DOI: 10.1006/jmaa.1993.1009

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