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Adaptative Step Size Selection for Homotopy Methods to Solve Polynomial Equations

Numerical Analysis 2012-05-31 v3 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Given a C^1 path of systems of homogeneous polynomial equations f_t, t in [a,b] and an approximation x_a to a zero zeta_a of the initial system f_a, we show how to adaptively choose the step size for a Newton based homotopy method so that we approximate the lifted path (f_t,zeta_t) in the space of (problems, solutions) pairs. The total number of Newton iterations is bounded in terms of the length of the lifted path in the condition metric.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1104.2084,
  title  = {Adaptative Step Size Selection for Homotopy Methods to Solve Polynomial Equations},
  author = {Jean-Pierre Dedieu and Gregorio Malajovich and Michael Shub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2084},
  year   = {2012}
}
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