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Stability and convergence of the string method for computing minimum energy paths

Numerical Analysis 2018-08-14 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We analyze the convergence of the string method of E, Ren, and Vanden-Eijnden to a minimum energy path. Under some assumptions relating to the critical points on the minimum energy path, we show that the string method initialized in a neighborhood of the minimum energy path converges to an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the minimum energy path as the number of images is increased.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06094,
  title  = {Stability and convergence of the string method for computing minimum energy paths},
  author = {Brian Van Koten and Mitchell Luskin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06094},
  year   = {2018}
}

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26 pages, 4 figures

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