The physical meaning of Lagrange multipliers

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/4/003MaRDI QIDQ5484492zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hasan Karabulut

Publication date 17 August 2006

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0609

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60)

Abstract: A rule to assign a physical meaning to Lagrange multipliers is discussed. Examples from mechanics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics are given.

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• A Nonlinear Lagrange Algorithm for Minimax Problems with General Constraints

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