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The disconnected components of certain trajectory nets containing all critical points of a differentiable functionf can be connected by suitably chosen contour sets of a certain associated functiong. A recursive construction yields a locally 1-dimensional connected set Ω which contains all critical points. The possible ways of tracing this set numerically are discussed.
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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Diener, I. Trajectory nets connecting all critical points of a smooth function. Mathematical Programming 36, 340–352 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02592065
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02592065