Instability analysis of saddle points by a local minimax method

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 74, Issue 251, 2005, Pages 1391-1411

  Zhou, Jianxin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(weak) local linking; Instability index; Local minimax method; Morse index; Saddle point

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644450266     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01694-1     Document Type: Article

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