The Homotopy Continuation Method: Numerically Implementable Topological Procedures

DOI10.2307/1997737zbMath0424.58003MaRDI QIDQ3858967

James A. Yorke, James C. Alexander

Publication date: 1978

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1997737

zbMATH Keywords

fixed points; Borsuk-Ulam theorem; inverse eigenvalue problem; homotopy continuation method; dependencies of vector fields on spheres; numerically solving nonlinear equations; zeros of monotone functions; zeros of odd maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34A12: Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations

55M25: Degree, winding number

65J15: Numerical solutions to equations with nonlinear operators

55M20: Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology

58C15: Implicit function theorems; global Newton methods on manifolds

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