SMOOTHING METHOD TO VANISH CORRELATION OF RESIDUAL BY LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS

Substructuring by Lagrange Multipliers

On the Method of Lagrange Multipliers

and there are no inequality constraints (i.e. there are no fi(x) i = 1, . . . , m). We simply write the p equality constraints in the matrix form as Cx− d = 0. The basic idea in Lagrangian duality is to take the constraints in (1) into account by augmenting the objective function with a weighted sum of the constraint functions. We define the Lagrangian L : R ×R ×R → R associated with the proble...

Canonical approach to Lagrange multipliers

Lagrange multipliers are present in any gauge theory. They possess peculiar gauge transformation which is not generated by the constraints in the model as it is the case with the other variables. For rank one gauge theories we show how to alter the constraints so that they become generators of the local symmetry algebra in the space of Lagrange multipliers too. We also discuss the limitations o...

Lagrange Multipliers and Optimality

Lagrange multipliers used to be viewed as auxiliary variables introduced in a problem of constrained minimization in order to write first-order optimality conditions formally as a system of equations. Modern applications, with their emphasis on numerical methods and more complicated side conditions than equations, have demanded deeper understanding of the concept and how it fits into a larger t...

Local Stability Conditions for the Babuska Method of Lagrange Multipliers

We consider the so-called Babuska method of finite elements with Lagrange multipliers for numerically solving the problem Au = f in il, u = g on 3Í2, iî C Rn, 7i > 2. We state a number of local conditions from which we prove the uniform stability of the Lagrange multiplier method in terms of a weighted, mesh-dependent norm. The stability conditions given weaken the conditions known so far and a...