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The fact that variational principles are not necessarily unique can be of practical significance when formulating approximation techniques. This result, which is particularly relevant where complicated boundary conditions exist, is pointed out here for the case of piezoelectric media problems.
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Errol P. Eer Nisse (1967) studied this question.
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