@article{pittir18121, volume = {385}, number = {1-2}, month = {February}, author = {AS Bayden and KD Jordan}, title = {Use of extended dimensions in global optimization}, journal = {Chemical Physics Letters}, pages = {101 -- 104}, year = {2004}, url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/18121/}, abstract = {In a recent Letter, Faken et al. described a new algorithm for global optimization that used extra dimensions to go around energy barriers in the physical three-dimensional (3D) space. The present work describes an improvement to this algorithm and also explores how its performance depends on the number of non-physical dimensions. {\copyright} 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.} }