Plateau Problem
摘要
In this chapter, we address a problem of calculus of variations: compute the optimal solution of the Plateau problem. We present three different methods illustrated in Fig. 1.2 of Chap. 1 : a direct method via automatic differentiation, an indirect method by solving the optimality conditions and a hybrid method. We finally highlight the non-commutativity of the previous methods which do not necessarily yield the same solution, depending on the choice of discretization.