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Wheels: A New Criterion for Non-convexity of Neural Codes

Combinatorics 2023-02-16 v2 Metric Geometry Neurons and Cognition

Abstract

We introduce new geometric and combinatorial criteria that preclude a neural code from being convex, and use them to tackle the classification problem for codes on six neurons. Along the way, we give the first example of a code that is non-convex, has no local obstructions, and has simplicial complex of dimension two. We also characterize convexity for neural codes for which the simplicial complex is pure of low or high dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2108.04995,
  title  = {Wheels: A New Criterion for Non-convexity of Neural Codes},
  author = {Laura Matusevich and Alexander Ruys de Perez and Anne Shiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04995},
  year   = {2023}
}

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25 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables