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Abstract

A previous paper (2011), Pitea and Postolache, considered the problem of minimization of vectors of curvilinear functionals (well known as mechanical work), thought as multitime multiobjective variational problem, subject to PDE and/or PDI constraints. They have chosen the suitable framework offered by the second-order jet bundle, and initiated an optimization theory for this class of problems by introducing necessary conditions. As natural continuation of these results, the present work introduces a dual program theory, the general setting, and the theory which is new as a whole, containing our results.