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Schematic of the barmap between two consecutive landscapes. Three types of events may occur: (1) two (here, the two left-most minima) local minima in 
merge into one; (2) a new minimum (marked by *) appears in 
; and (3) one-to-one correspondence between minima (as for the right-most minimum here).
