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IJMMS 2003:66, 4145–4182 PII. S0161171203303370 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. DUALITY MODELS FOR SOME NONCLASSICAL PROBLEMS IN THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS G. J. ZALMAI Received 20 March 2003 Parametric and nonparametric necessary and sufficient optimality conditions are established for a class of nonconvex variational problems with generalized frac- tional objective functions and nonlinear inequality constraints containing arbi- trary norms. Based on these optimality criteria, ten parametric and parameter- free dual problems are constructed and appropriate duality theorems are proved. These optimality and duality results contain, as special cases, similar results for minmax fractional variational problems involving square roots of positive semidef- inite quadratic forms as well as for variational problems with fractional, discrete max, and conventional objective functions, which are particular cases of the main problem considered in this paper. The duality models presented here subsume various existing duality formulations for variational problems and include vari- ational generalizations of a great variety of cognate dual problems investigated previously in the area of finite-dimensional nonlinear programming by an assort- ment of ad hoc methods. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 49K35, 49N15, 90C32, 90C47 . 1. Introduction. In this paper, we establish necessary and sufficient op- timality conditions and construct a fairly large number of parametric and parameter-free duality models for the following unorthodox variational prob- lem: (P) b ˙ (t