Formal Definition
Mathematically, an energy landscape is a continuous function associating each physical state with an energy, where is a topological space.
In the continuous case, where is the number of degrees of freedom of the system. The graph of a continuous energy landscape is a hypersurface in .
Hills and valleys in the energy lanscape correpond to local maxima and minima of, respectively.
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