Abstract
The non-uniqueness of Lagrange functions is a standard topic in classical mechanics. However, it is still troublesome in undergraduate and graduate teaching. In this paper, we show that this non-uniqueness is equivalent to gauge freedom, and thus the gauge, canonical, and Galilean transformations are equivalent. In this sense, we also discuss how to solve the problem of selecting one out of many gauge-equivalent Hamiltonians to represent energy.
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