Paper 1, Section I, D
Let be a bounded region of , with boundary . Let be a smooth function defined on , subject to the boundary condition that on and the normalization condition that
Let be the functional
Show that has a stationary value, subject to the stated boundary and normalization conditions, when satisfies a partial differential equation of the form
in , where is a constant.
Determine how is related to the stationary value of the functional . Hint: Consider .]
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