Informing the structure of complex Hadamard matrix spaces using a flow

A complex Hadamard matrix \begin{document}$ H $\end{document} may be isolated or may lie in a higher-dimensional space of Hadamards. We provide an upper bound for this dimension as the dimension of the center subspace of a gradient flow and apply the Center Manifold Theorem of dynamical systems theory to study local structure in spaces of complex Hadamard matrices. Through examples, we provide several applications of our methodology including the construction of affine families of Hadamard matrices.