 Dirichlet energy (source code)

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The Dirichlet energy of a differentiable scalar function is one half the integral of its squared gradient. On a Euclidean domain it is $E(u)=\tfrac12\int|\nabla u|^2dx$; the <Dirichlet energy on a Riemannian manifold> uses its metric and volume measure. Its stationary functions satisfy the Laplace equation with fixed boundary values.

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