Functional derivative

Note: There are more general definitions of functional derivatives. This is merely a restricted definition suitable for certain computations.

If we have a functional F mapping (continuous/smooth/with certain boundary conditions/etc.) functions φ from a manifold M to or , to or , then, provided the following derivative exists, the functional derivative is a distribution such that for all test functions f, .

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