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Q46Section B (Part B)46 of 120

Calculus of variations — an extremal of a logarithmic functional

Suppose y(x)y(x) is the extremal of the variational problem

J(y)=∫04(y′)2y2 dxsubject to y(0)=1,y(4)=e8.J(y)=\int_0^4\frac{(y')^2}{y^2}\,\mathrm{d}x\quad\text{subject to } y(0)=1, y(4)=e^{8}.

Then which of the following statements is true?

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