The principle of least action as a Lagrange variational problem: Stationarity and extremality conditions

DOI10.1016/0020-7225(86)90072-8zbMATH Open0625.70013OpenAlexW2060440634MaRDI QIDQ579982FDOQ579982

Authors: John G. Papastavridis 

Publication date: 1986

Published in: International Journal of Engineering Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7225(86)90072-8

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zbMATH Keywords

stationaritycalculus of variationsextremalityisoenergetic disturbanceskinetic focusLagrange action functionalLagrange multiplier-containing functionalsemidefiniteness condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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