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This work presents a numerical analysis of computing transition states of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) via the index-1 saddle dynamics, or equivalently, the gentlest ascent dynamics. To establish clear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Lei Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng , Shangqin Zhu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bingzhang Huang , Hua Su , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Hua Su , Haoran Wang , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao , Xiangcheng Zheng

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

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

We prove error estimates for the semi-implicit numerical scheme of sphere-constrained high-index saddle dynamics, which serves as a powerful instrument in finding saddle points and constructing the solution landscapes of constrained systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

We propose a constrained high-index saddle dynamics (CHiSD) method to search for index-$k$ saddle points of an energy functional subject to equality constraints. With Riemannian manifold tools, the CHiSD is derived in a minimax framework,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Jianyuan Yin , Zhen Huang , Lei Zhang

We introduce a generalized numerical algorithm to construct the solution landscape, which is a pathway map consisting of all stationary points and their connections. Based on the high-index optimization-based shrinking dimer (HiOSD) method…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Jianyuan Yin , Bing Yu , Lei Zhang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Yue Luo , Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Zhiyi Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuankai Liu , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yue Luo , Xiangcheng Zheng , Lei Zhang

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ning Du , Yanlin Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

A new method for solving numerically stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiple scales is presented. The method combines a spectral method with the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) presented in [W. E, D. Liu, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 A. Abdulle , G. A. Pavliotis

Correlated with the trend of increasing degrees of freedom in robotic systems is a similar trend of rising interest in Spatio-Temporal systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) among the robotics and control communities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ethan N. Evans , Andrew P. Kendall , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

We introduce a novel numerical method to integrate partial differential equations representing the Hamiltonian dynamics of field theories. It is a multi-symplectic integrator that locally conserves the stress-energy tensor with an excellent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Hugo Ricateau , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Jie Shen , Zuodong Wang

High-index saddle dynamics provides an effective means to compute the any-index saddle points and construct the solution landscape. In this paper we prove error estimates for Euler discretization of high-index saddle dynamics with respect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng
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