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Solution of a problem of S. Ulam on optimal matching of segments

A. Ya. Dubovitskii


Abstract: Using a maximum principle a solution is found of Ulam's problem of determining a continuous motion of a unit segment from the position $AB$ to $A'B'$ under which the total path traversed by the ends of this segment is as small as possible.
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UDC: 519.3

MSC: 50A40

Received: 13.03.1975

 English version: Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya, 1976, 10:3, 639–651

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