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Opt Lett
; 29(2): 189-91, 2004 Jan 15.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14744006
RESUMO
We discuss a surprising new feature of the merit function landscape in optical system design. When certain conditions are satisfied, the local minima form a network in which all nodes are connected. Each link between two neighboring minima contains a saddle point with a Morse index of 1. For a simple global optimization search (the symmetric Cooke triplet), the network of the corresponding set of local minima is presented.