High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The ridges (or the ridge set) of a smooth function of two variables is a set of curves whose points are, in one or more ways to be made precise below, local maxima of the function in at least one dimension. For a function of N variables, its ridges are a set of curves whose points are local maxima in N ? 1 dimensions. In this respect, the notion of ridge points extends the concept of a local maximum. Correspondingly, the notion of valleys for a function can be defined by replacing the condition of a local maximum with the condition of a local minimum. The union of ridge sets and valley sets, together with a related set of points called the connector set form a connected set of curves that partition, intersect, or meet at the critical points of the function.

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