Abstract:
The following extremum problem is studied:
$$
\int _0^1\bigl(y''(t)\bigr)^p\,dt\bigg/
\int _0^1\bigl(y'(t)\bigr)^q\,dt
\to\min
$$
over all $y$, with $y(0)=y(1)=0$ and $y'(0)=y'(1)=0$, which leads to the integral
$$
\int_{\mathbb R}\bigl(\max(0,1+\mu x-|x|^q)\bigr)^{1/p'}\,dx
$$
and yields exact estimates for the eigenvalues of differential operators in the generalized Lagrange problem on the stability of a column.