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Dirichlet's PrincipleAlso known as Thomson's Principle. There exists a function that minimizes the functional
(called the Dirichlet Integral) for or among all thefunctions which take on given values on the boundary of , and that function satisfies in , , . Weierstraß showed that Dirichlet's argument contained a subtle fallacy. As a result, it can be claimed only that there exists a lower bound to which comes arbitrarily close without beingforced to actually reach it. Kneser, however, obtained a valid proof of Dirichlet's principle.See also Dirichlet's Box Principle, Dirichlet Integrals
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