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The high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) method is a powerful approach for computing saddle points and solution landscape. However, its practical applicability is constrained by the need for the explicit energy function expression. To overcome…

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We present an improved high-index saddle dynamics (iHiSD) for finding saddle points and constructing solution landscapes, which is a crossover dynamics from gradient flow to traditional HiSD such that the Morse theory for gradient flow…

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High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) is an effective approach for computing saddle points of a prescribed Morse index and constructing solution landscapes for complex nonlinear systems. However, for problems with ill-conditioned Hessians…

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The high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) method [J. Yin, L. Zhang, and P. Zhang, {\it SIAM J. Sci. Comput., }41 (2019), pp.A3576-A3595] serves as an efficient tool for computing index-$k$ saddle points and constructing solution landscapes.…

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Finding constrained saddle points on Riemannian manifolds is significant for analyzing energy landscapes arising in physics and chemistry. Existing works have been limited to special manifolds that admit global regular level-set…

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This paper presents a rigorous numerical framework for computing multiple solutions of semilinear elliptic problems by spatiotemporal high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD), which extends the traditional HiSD to the continuous-in-space setting,…

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Non-convex optimal control arises from various applications but may contain multiple stationary points. Classical solvers usually perform a ``local'' search near a saddle point or a local minimum, thus rely on good initial guess to reach…

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High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) serves as a competitive instrument in searching the any-index saddle points and constructing the solution landscape of complex systems. The Lagrangian multiplier terms in HiSD ensure the Stiefel manifold…

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We propose the nullspace-preserving high-index saddle dynamics (NPHiSD) method for degenerating multiple solution systems in constrained and unconstrained settings. The NPHiSD efficiently locates high-index saddle points and provides parent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Kai Jiang , Lei Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng , Tiejun Zhou

The high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) method provides a powerful framework for finding saddle points and constructing solution landscapes. While originally derived for nondegenerate critical points, HiSD has demonstrated empirical success…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Tao Luo , Jianyuan Yin , Lei Zhang , Shixue Zhang

In this paper, the gentlest ascent dynamics (GAD) developed in [W. E and X. Zhou, Nonlinearity, 24 (2011), pp. 1831--1842] is extended to a constrained gentlest ascent dynamics (CGAD) to find constrained saddle points with any specified…

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We study the discrete constrained saddle dynamics and their momentum variants for locating saddle points on manifolds. Under the assumption of exact unstable eigenvectors, we establish a local linear convergence of the discrete constrained…

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This paper proposes and analyzes an iterative minimization formulation for search- ing index-1 saddle points of an energy function. This formulation differs from other eigenvector-following methods by constructing a new objective function…

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We present a mathematical and numerical investigation to the shrinkingdimer saddle dynamics for finding any-index saddle points in the solution landscape. Due to the dimer approximation of Hessian in saddle dynamics, the local Lipschitz…

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In this paper we consider the problem of finding an evolution of a dynamical system that originates and terminates in given sets of states. However, if such an evolution exists then it is usually not unique. We investigate this problem and…

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We analyze the semi-implicit scheme of high-index saddle dynamics, which provides a powerful numerical method for finding the any-index saddle points and constructing the solution landscape. Compared with the explicit schemes of saddle…

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Here we present a multiscale method to calculate the saddle point associated with the effective dynamics arising from a stochastic system which couples slow deterministic drift and fast stochastic dynamics. This problem is motivated by the…

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We develop and analyze numerical discretization to the constrained high-index saddle dynamics, the dynamics searching for the high-index saddle points confined on the high-dimensional unit sphere. Compared with the saddle dynamics without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

Saddle points provide a hierarchical view of the energy landscape, revealing transition pathways and interconnected basins of attraction, and offering insight into the global structure, metastability, and possible collective mechanisms of…

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