Variational Principles (On the dangers and ambushes awaiting a theoretical physicist as soon as he starts to apply them)

Prof.

Jerzy

Kijowski

Center for Theoretical Physics PAS

Marzec 12, 2025 12:30
I will discuss the errors that physicists often make when using the calculus of variations. The result of these errors is especially painful when our goal is to correctly describe the phenomenon of gravity.