filename : Buj19a.pdf entry : inproceedings conference : Eurographics Conference on Visualization - Short Papers, Porto, Portugal, 3-7 June, 2019 pages : 49-53 year : 2019 month : June title : Objective Finite-Time Saddles and their Connection to FTLE subtitle : author : Roxana Bujack and Soumya Dutta and Irene Baeza Rojo and Duan Zhang and Tobias Günther booktitle : ISSN/ISBN : editor : publisher : publ.place : volume : issue : language : English keywords : abstract : Based on an intuitive physical definition of what a finite-time saddle-like behavior is, we derive a mathematical definition. We show that this definition builds the link between two FTLE-based saddle generalizations, which is not only of theoretical interest but also provides a more robust extraction of finite-time saddles.