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@@ -549,6 +549,19 @@ manifold: its tangent at any point $z$ is given by $\partial(z^Tz)=z$, and
$Pz=z-z|z|^2/|z|^2=0$. For any vector $u$ perpendicular to $z$, i.e.,
$z^\dagger u=0$, $Pu=u$.
+\begin{figure}
+ \includegraphics{figs/thimble_flow.pdf}
+
+ \caption{Example of gradient descent flow on the action $\mathcal S$ featured
+ in Fig.~\ref{fig:example.action} in the complex-$\theta$ plane, with
+ $\arg\beta=0.4$. Symbols denote the stationary points, while thick blue and
+ red lines depict the thimbles and antithimbles, respectively. Streamlines
+ of the flow equations are plotted in a color set by their value of
+ $\operatorname{Im}\beta\mathcal S$; notice that the color is constant along
+ each streamline.
+ } \label{fig:flow.example}
+\end{figure}
+
Gradient descent on $\operatorname{Re}\beta\mathcal S$ is equivalent to
Hamiltonian dynamics with the Hamiltonian $\operatorname{Im}\beta\mathcal S$
and conjugate coordinates given by the real and imaginary parts of each complex
@@ -616,15 +629,6 @@ $C\neq\operatorname{Im}\mathcal S(z_0)$ is split into two disconnected pieces, o
lying in each of two quadrants corresponding with its value relative to that at
the critical point.
-\begin{figure}
- \includegraphics{figs/local_flow.pdf}
- \caption{
- Gradient descent in the vicinity of a critical point, in the $z$--$z^*$
- plane for an eigenvector $z$ of $(\partial\partial\mathcal S)^\dagger P$. The flow
- lines are colored by the value of $\operatorname{Im}H$.
- } \label{fig:local_flow}
-\end{figure}
-
Continuing to `insert' critical points whose imaginary energy differs from $C$,
one repeatedly partitions the space this way with each insertion. Therefore,
for the generic case with $\mathcal N$ critical points, with $C$ differing in