Abstract
Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of integral variational principles for boundary value problems for given ordinary and partial functional differential equations are obtained. Examples are given illustrating the results.
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On variational formulations for functional differential equations
Academic Editor: Vladimir Stepanov
Received01 Aug 2005
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