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Topological data analysis (TDA) is an active field of mathematics for quantifying shape in complex data. Standard methods in TDA such as persistent homology (PH) are typically focused on the analysis of data consisting of a single entity…

We investigate a family of quasiperiodic continuous elastic beams, the topological properties of their vibrational spectra, and their relation to the existence of localized modes. We specifically consider beams featuring arrays of ground…

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We investigate the growth of dynamic heterogeneity in a glassy hard-sphere mixture for volume fractions up to and including the mode-coupling transition. We use an 80 000 particle system to test a new procedure to evaluate a dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

While topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for structural inference, its foundational tools, notably persistent homology and the persistent Laplacian, are frequently insensitive to localized structural fluctuations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng , Kefeng Liu

Alignment interactions in active matter are typically modeled as relaxational dynamics toward local consensus. In unbounded systems, this makes alignment effectively decoupled from local density and therefore unable to sustain self-confined…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Julian Giraldo-Barreto , Viktor Holubec

In this work we introduce a topological method for the search of fixed points and periodic points for continuous maps defined on generalized rectangles in finite dimensional Euclidean spaces. We name our technique "Stretching Along the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Marina Pireddu

Biological membranes are host to proteins and molecules which may form domain-like structures resulting in spatially-varying material properties. Vesicles with such heterogeneous membranes can exhibit intricate shapes at equilibrium and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-22 Prerna Gera , David Salac , Saverio E. Spagnolie

A general method for constructing simplicial complex from observed time series of dynamical systems based on the delay coordinate reconstruction procedure is presented. The obtained simplicial complex preserves all pertinent topological…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-22 Slobodan Maletic , Yi Zhao , Milan Rajkovic

We explore the evolution of daily returns of four major US stock market indices during the technology crash of 2000, and the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Our methodology is based on topological data analysis (TDA). We use persistence…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-22 Marian Gidea , Yuri Katz

Amorphous solids tend to present an abundance of soft elastic modes, which diminish their transport properties, generate heterogeneities in their elastic response, and affect non-linear processes like thermal activation of plasticity. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 Le Yan , Eric DeGiuli , Matthieu Wyart

We investigate the dynamics of chaotic trajectories in simple yet physically important Hamiltonian systems with non-hierarchical borders between regular and chaotic regions with positive measures. We show that the stickiness to the border…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo G. Altmann , Adilson E. Motter , Holger Kantz

Persistent homology has emerged as a popular technique for the topological simplification of big data, including biomolecular data. Multidimensional persistence bears considerable promise to bridge the gap between geometry and topology.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-25 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) can be used to detect and characterize holes in an image, such as zero-dimensional holes (connected components) or one-dimensional holes (loops). However, there is currently no widely accepted statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Susan Glenn , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Jun Zhu , William M Bement

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data, shape, and structure of the neighborhood of individual data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sumit Bhatia , Bapi Chatterjee , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

The plasticity of amorphous solids undergoing shear is characterized by quasi-localized rearrangements of particles. While many models of plasticity exist, the precise relationship between plastic dynamics and the structure of a particle's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-12 Jason W. Rocks , Sean A. Ridout , Andrea J. Liu

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an area of data science that focuses on using invariants from algebraic topology to provide multiscale shape descriptors for geometric data sets such as point clouds. One of the most important such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Loiseaux , Mathieu Carrière , Andrew J. Blumberg

The machine learning technique of persistent homology classifies complex systems or datasets by computing their topological features over a range of characteristic scales. There is growing interest in applying persistent homology to…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G Angelakis

The long time dynamics of large particles trapped in two inhomogeneous turbulent shear flows is studied experimentally. Both flows present a common feature, a shear region that separates two colliding circulations, but with different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-02 N Machicoane , M López-Caballero , L Fiabane , J-F Pinton , M Bourgoin , J Burguete , R Volk

We use computer simulations to study the microscopic dynamics of an athermal assembly of soft particles near the fluid-to-solid, jamming transition. Borrowing tools developed to study dynamic heterogeneity near glass transitions, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-24 Claus Heussinger , Ludovic Berthier , Jean-Louis Barrat

We study the topological dynamics by iterations of a piecewise continuous, non linear and locally contractive map in a real finite dimensional compact ball. We consider those maps satisfying the "separation property": different continuity…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-06-22 Eleonora Catsigeras , Ruben Budelli