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The action is the integral of the Lagrangian over time, or the integral of the Lagrangian Density over both time and space.

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Is there some connection between the Virial theorem and a least action principle?

As far as the least action principles, one could think of them as saying that the actual path is one that makes an equipartition between the two kinds of energies. …
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