Functional Derivative: Evaluating & Understanding

Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
1 reply · 1K views
aaaa202
Messages
1,144
Reaction score
2
In my textbook (see attached picture) there appears a functional derivative, but I honestly don't know how to evaluate a quantity like this. What should I do? I have tried to google but all I could find was how to take functional derivatives, where polynomials appeared under the integral, while here is an exponential.
 

Attachments

  • Untitled.png
    Untitled.png
    52.7 KB · Views: 525
Physics news on Phys.org