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On stable extremals of the potential energy functional
N. M. Poluboyarova Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia
Abstract:
We study the problem of the stability of the extremals of the potential energy functional. By the stability of an extremal surface we mean the sign-definiteness of its second variation. For estimating the second variation of the functional, we use the properties of the eigenvalues of symmetric matrices. Also, we prove an analog of Alexandrov's Theorem on the variational property of a sphere.
Keywords:
variation of a functional, instability of a surface, stability of a surface, potential energy functional, area-type functional, extremal surface.
Received: 12.11.2020 Revised: 23.03.2021 Accepted: 14.04.2021
Citation:
N. M. Poluboyarova, “On stable extremals of the potential energy functional”, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 62:3 (2021), 595–602; Siberian Math. J., 62:3 (2021), 482–488
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