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Variational Openness: An Open Formulation of Hamilton's Principle
Francisco Monroy
Since its classical origin, Hamilton's principle has been formulated under an exact closure condition: admissible variations vanish at the boundaries of the variational domain. Thi…
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Variational Openness
Francisco Monroy
Variational principles in mechanics, field theory and geometric analysis are usually formulated on closed admissible classes, where boundary variations are either fixed or independ…