👉 In mathematics and functional analysis, an ultracritical point is a critical point where the Hessian matrix of a function has non-positive eigenvalues. These points are often used to study properties of functions that are not smooth enough for traditional methods like Taylor expansion or numerical approximation to be applicable. Ultracritical points can also serve as a benchmark for optimal control problems and optimization problems, since they correspond to critical points where the gradient is bounded but not Lipschitz continuous.