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   <div id="version" align=right><b>petsc-3.4.2 2013-07-02</b></div>
<A NAME="SNESLINESEARCHBT"><H1>SNESLINESEARCHBT</H1></A>
Backtracking line search. This line search finds the minimum of a polynomial fitting of the L2 norm of the
function. If this fit does not satisfy the conditions for progress, the interval shrinks
and the fit is reattempted at most max_it times or until lambda is below minlambda.
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<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Options Database Keys</FONT></H3>
<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>-snes_linesearch_alpha&lt;1e</B></TD><TD>- 4&gt; - slope descent parameter
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>-snes_linesearch_damping&lt;1.0&gt; </B></TD><TD>- initial step length
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>-snes_linesearch_max_it&lt;40&gt; </B></TD><TD>- maximum number of shrinking step
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>-snes_linesearch_minlambda&lt;1e</B></TD><TD>- 12&gt; - minimum step length allowed
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B>-snes_linesearch_order&lt;cubic,quadratic&gt; </B></TD><TD>- order of the approximation
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<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Notes</FONT></H3>
This line search is taken from "Numerical Methods for Unconstrained
Optimization and Nonlinear Equations" by Dennis and Schnabel, page 325.
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<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Keywords</FONT></H3>
 <A HREF="../SNES/SNES.html#SNES">SNES</A>, <A HREF="../SNES/SNESLineSearch.html#SNESLineSearch">SNESLineSearch</A>, damping
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<H3><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">See Also</FONT></H3>
 <A HREF="../SNES/SNESLineSearchCreate.html#SNESLineSearchCreate">SNESLineSearchCreate</A>(), <A HREF="../SNES/SNESLineSearchSetType.html#SNESLineSearchSetType">SNESLineSearchSetType</A>()
<BR><P><B><P><B><FONT COLOR="#CC3333">Level:</FONT></B>advanced
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