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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Just a review of Lagrange's Multiplier (to be corrected)

We try to create a concrete computation to find the local extreme of f:RnUR subject to the constraint g(x)=c. Here c is a regular point, namely, a point such that g(x)=cg(x)0.

Moreover, we call the surface specified by g(x)=c to be S, hence we are finding the local extreme of f restricted to the surface S, namely, we are finding the local extreme of f|S. Suppose now f|S attains the local extreme at x=x0, then for any v{uRn:g(x0)u=0}:=Tx0S, i.e. any tangent vector moving on S at x0, we have Dvf(x0)=f(x0)v=0 (for otherwise it is not an extrema).

Let's summarize the implication, vTx0Sf(x0)v=0.

Since g(x0) spans the normal space of S at x0, it follows that f(x0)=λg(x0).

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