@phdthesis{Lageman2007, author = {Lageman, Christian}, title = {Convergence of gradient-like dynamical systems and optimization algorithms}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-23948}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2007}, abstract = {This work studies the convergence of trajectories of gradient-like systems. In the first part of this work continuous-time gradient-like systems are examined. Results on the convergence of integral curves of gradient systems to single points of Lojasiewicz and Kurdyka are extended to a class of gradient-like vector fields and gradient-like differential inclusions. In the second part of this work discrete-time gradient-like optimization methods on manifolds are studied. Methods for smooth and for nonsmooth optimization problems are considered. For these methods some convergence results are proven. Additionally the optimization methods for nonsmooth cost functions are applied to sphere packing problems on adjoint orbits.}, subject = {Dynamisches System}, language = {en} }