Verification of stationary action trajectories via optimal control

A new optimal control based representation for stationary action trajectories is constructed by exploiting connections between semiconvexity, semiconcavity, and stationarity. This new representation is used to verify a known two-point boundary value problem characterization of stationary action.

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