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

DOI10.1016/0020-7225(86)90072-8zbMath0625.70013OpenAlexW2060440634MaRDI QIDQ579982

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

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsstationarityextremalityisoenergetic disturbanceskinetic focusLagrange action functionalLagrange multiplier-containing functionalsemidefiniteness condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• On a Lagrangean action based kinetic instability theorem of Kelvin and Tait
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