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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2013 G2 a Solution by
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For fixed endpoint variations, the Euler-Lagrange equations areIndeed the first variation is . Integration by parts removes the derivatives from the variations; their zero endpoint values remove the boundary term. The fundamental lemma then makes every remaining coefficient vanish.
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