Projection stabilization of Lagrange multipliers for the imposition of constraints on interfaces and boundaries

Projection stabilization applied to general Lagrange multiplier finite element methods is introduced and analyzed in an abstract framework. We then consider some applications of the stabilized methods: (i) the weak imposition of boundary conditions, (ii) multiphysics coupling on unfitted meshes, (iii) a new interpretation of the classical residual stabilized Lagrange multiplier method introduced in Barbosa and Hughes, Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 85 (1991), 109–128.