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We formulate and solve extremal problems of potential theory that are dual to the Gauss variational problem but, unlike the latter, are always solvable. Statements on the compactness of classes of solutions and the continuity of extremals are also established.
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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 747–764, June, 2006.
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Zorii, N.V. Extremal problems dual to the Gauss variational problem. Ukr Math J 58, 842–861 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-006-0108-3
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