Abstract
In this paper we initiate the study of second-order variational problems in
the associated equation is the fully nonlinear third-order PDE
Special cases arise when
Acknowledgements
Nikos Katzourakis would like to thank Craig Evans, Robert Jensen, Roger Moser, Juan Manfredi and Jan Kristensen for their inspiring mathematical discussions and especially their illuminating remarks on
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