A Morse theoretic approach to non-isolated singularities and applications to optimization
DOI10.1016/j.jpaa.2021.106865zbMath1475.13054arXiv2002.00406MaRDI QIDQ2229979
Laurenţiu Maxim, Jose Israel Rodriguez, Botong Wang
Publication date: 17 September 2021
Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00406
Euler characteristic; objective function; optimal solution; singular varieties; stationary points; perverse sheaves; constructible complexes; Euclidean distance degree; characteristic cycles; local Euler obstruction function; conic Lagrangian cycles; nearby and vanishing cycle functors
90C26: Nonconvex programming, global optimization
57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology
32B15: Analytic subsets of affine space
13P25: Applications of commutative algebra (e.g., to statistics, control theory, optimization, etc.)