Coupled intervals in the discrete calculus of variations: necessity and sufficiency
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| Rok publikování | 2002 |
| Druh | Článek v odborném periodiku |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Obor | Obecná matematika |
| Klíčová slova | discrete quadratic functional; coupled interval; Jacobi difference equation; conjugate interval; Legendre condition; discrete calculus of variations |
| Popis | In this work we study nonnegativity and positivity of a discrete quadratic functional with separately varying endpoints. We introduce a notion of an interval coupled with 0, and hence, extend the notion of conjugate interval to 0 from the case of fixed to variable endpoint(s). We show that the nonnegativity of the discrete quadratic functional is equivalent to each of the following conditions: the nonexistence of intervals coupled with 0, the existence of a solution to Riccati matrix equation and its boundary conditions. Natural strengthening of each of these conditions yields a characterization of the positivity of the discrete quadratic functional. Since the quadratic functional under consideration could be a second variation of a discrete calculus of variations problem with varying endpoints, we apply our results to obtain necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for such problems. This paper generalizes our recent work in [18], where the right endpoint is fixed. |
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