Convergence results of a local minimax method for finding multiple critical points

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 865-885

  Li, Yongxin ^a   Zhou, Jianxin ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Local peak selection; Minimax algorithm; Multiple critical points

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

HENON EQUATION; LOCAL MINIMAX METHOD; LOCAL PEAK SOLUTION; MINIMAX ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE CRITICAL POINTS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0038746755     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827500379732     Document Type: Article

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