Leakage Threshold of a Saddle Point

SADDLE POINT VARIATIONAL METHOD FOR DIRAC CONFINEMENT

A saddle point variational (SPV ) method was applied to the Dirac equation as an example of a fully relativistic equation with both negative and positive energy solutions. The effect of the negative energy states was mitigated by maximizing the energy with respect to a relevant parameter while at the same time minimizing it with respect to another parameter in the wave function. The Cornell pot...

Saddle-Point Dynamics: Conditions for Asymptotic Stability of Saddle Points

This paper considers continuously differentiable functions of two vector variables that have (possibly a continuum of) min-max saddle points. We study the asymptotic convergence properties of the associated saddle-point dynamics (gradient-descent in the first variable and gradientascent in the second one). We identify a suite of complementary conditions under which the set of saddle points is a...

A BDDC Preconditioner for Saddle Point Problems

The purpose of this paper is to extend the BDDC (balancing domain decomposition by constraints) algorithm to saddle point problems that arise when mixed finite element methods are used to approximate the system of incompressible Stokes equations. The BDDC algorithms are defined in terms of a set of primal continuity constraints, which are enforced across the interface between the subdomains, an...

A Preconditioner for Generalized Saddle Point Problems

In this paper we consider the solution of linear systems of saddle point type by preconditioned Krylov subspace methods. A preconditioning strategy based on the symmetric/ skew-symmetric splitting of the coefficient matrix is proposed, and some useful properties of the preconditioned matrix are established. The potential of this approach is illustrated by numerical experiments with matrices fro...

Maxima to Saddle-point Problems