Balancing the lifting values to improve the numerical stability of polyhedral homotopy continuation methods

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 114, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 233-247

  Gao, Tangan ^a,b   Li, T Y ^a   Verschelde, Jan ^a   Wu, Mengnien ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing; Numerical stability; Path following; Polyhedral homotopies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001731339     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00115-0     Document Type: Article

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