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We introduce monoidal width as a measure of the difficulty of decomposing morphisms in monoidal categories. For graphs, we show that monoidal width and two variations capture existing notions, namely branch width, tree width and path width.…

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Assembling parts into an object is a combinatorial problem that arises in a variety of contexts in the real world and involves numerous applications in science and engineering. Previous related work tackles limited cases with identical unit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jinhwi Lee , Jungtaek Kim , Hyunsoo Chung , Jaesik Park , Minsu Cho

Fractal surfaces are ubiquitous in nature as well as in the sciences. The examples range from the cloud boundaries to the corroded surfaces. Fractal dimension gives a measure of the irregularity in the object under study. We present a…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Kiran M. Kolwankar , Nakul N. Karle

Topological phylogenetic trees can be assigned edge weights in several natural ways, highlighting different aspects of the tree. Here the rooted triple and quartet metrizations are introduced, and applied to formulate novel fast methods of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-15 John A. Rhodes

This article presents a new way to understand the descriptive ability of tree shape statistics. Where before tree shape statistics were chosen by their ability to distinguish between macroevolutionary models, the ``resolution'' presented in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Frederick A. Matsen

Scientists use a mathematical subject called 'topology' to study the shapes of objects. An important part of topology is counting the numbers of pieces and holes in objects, and people use this information to group objects into different…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Michelle Feng , Abigail Hickok , Yacoub H. Kureh , Mason A. Porter , Chad M. Topaz

In this paper we define a numerical shape invariant of a continuous map called shape dimension of a map, which generalizes the shape dimension of a topological space. Some basic properties and applications of this invariant are given. The…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Pavel S. Gevorgyan , I. Pop

In this paper, we derive new shape descriptors based on a directional characterization. The main idea is to study the behavior of the shape neighborhood under family of transformations. We obtain a description invariant with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Xavier Descombes , Serguei Komech

In the paper we investigate statistical and topological properties of fractional Brownian polymer chains, equipped with the short-range volume interactions. The attention is paid to statistical properties of collapsed conformations with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 A. M. Astakhov , V. A. Avetisov , S. K. Nechaev , K. E. Polovnikov

Fractal geometry deals mainly with irregularity and captures the complexity of a structure or phenomenon. In this article, we focus on the approximation of set-valued functions using modern machinery on the subject of fractal geometry. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Parneet Kaur , Rattan Lal , Ankit Kumar , Saurabh Verma

Topography is the expression of both internal and external processes of a planetary body. Thus hypsometry (the study of topography) is a way to decipher the dynamic of a planet. For that purpose, the statistics of height and slopes may be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 François Landais , Frédéric Schmidt , Shaun Lovejoy

The fractal properties of four-dimensional Euclidean simplicial manifold generated by the dynamical triangulation are analyzed on the geodesic distance D between two vertices instead of the usual scale between two simplices. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 H. S. Egawa , S. Horata , T. Yukawa

In this paper, we study the topology associated to the fractal manifold model. It turns out that this topology is actually a family of topologies that gives to the fractal manifold a structure of variable topological space. Additionally, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Helene Porchon

Porosity and dimension are two useful, but different, concepts that quantify the size of fractal sets and measures. An active area of research concerns understanding the relationship between these two concepts. In this article we will…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Pablo Shmerkin

The concept of derivative coordinate functions proved useful in the formulation of analytic fractal functions to represent smooth symmetric binary fractal trees [1]. In this paper we introduce a new geometry that defines the fractal space…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Henk Mulder

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) uses insights from topology to create representations of data able to capture global and local geometric and topological properties. Its methods have successfully been used to develop estimations of fractal…

We have built a new kind of manifolds which leads to an alternative new geometrical space. The study of the nowhere differentiable functions via a family of mean functions leads to a new characterization of this category of functions. A…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Faycal Ben Adda

A topological shape analysis is proposed and utilized to learn concepts that reflect shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects. Therein constellations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

Nanostructured surfaces usually exhibit complicated morphologies that cannot be described in terms of Euclidean geometry. Simultaneously, they do not constitute fully random noise fields to be characterized by simple stochastics and…

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