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A Lipschitz regularity theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

FRANCIS CLARKE*
Affiliation:
Institut Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France (email: [email protected])

Abstract

This paper gives a direct and elementary proof of the fact that under hypotheses of Tonelli type, solutions to the basic problem in the calculus of variations are Lipschitz when the Lagrangian is autonomous. This fact was first proved by Clarke and Vinter in 1985, using other methods.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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