How to get comlex root of an equation using fminbnd?

I am trying to solve an equation using fminbnd. I need the complex answers of the equation but fminbnd only gives me the real part. Is there any way to force the fminbnd to give the comlex roots of the equation? I apprecite it if anyone could help me on this!

Answer 1

[Tushar Behera]

Hi Sina,

I believe you want to find the minimum of a function in the complex plane.

The function "fminbnd" is not suitable for such a task, you can use heuristic algorithms such as genetic algorithm or particle swarm optimization for such a task. Apart from that the following Matlab answer also sheds some light on this particular problem,

How to solve for the minimum of a complex function - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

I hope this resolves your query.

Regards,

Tushar

Answer 2

[Matt J]

fminbnd is for minimzing over a 1D interval. It's not clear to me how you are defining 1D interval bounds for a number that does not live on the real axis.

If you move to fminsearch, you can make it work by redefining your objective function fun() to work with the real and imaginary parts of the complex number as if they formed a 2D vector:

fun=@(x) fun( complex(x(1), x(2)) );

xopt = fminsearch(fun, [real(x0), imag(x0)])

xopt=complex(xopt(1),xopt(2));