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The aim of homotopy theory in topology is to simplify, after continuous deformation, continuous maps between topological spaces. What prevents this from happening are homotopy invariants. This raises quantitative questions: $\bullet$ Is the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Pierre Pansu

Simplicial type theory extends homotopy type theory with a directed path type which internalizes the notion of a homomorphism within a type. This concept has significant applications both within mathematics -- where it allows for synthetic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Daniel Gratzer , Jonathan Weinberger , Ulrik Buchholtz

Directed Algebraic Topology studies spaces equipped with a form of direction, to include models of non-reversible processes. In the present extension we also want to cover critical processes, indecomposable and unstoppable. The previous…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Marco Grandis

We define a simpler notion of symmetric topological complexity more ad hoc to the motion planning problem which was the original motivation for the definition of topological complexity. This is a homotopy invariant that we call…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Enrique Torres-Giese

This paper lays the foundations of an approach to applying Gromov's ideas on quantitative topology to topological data analysis. We introduce the "contiguity complex", a simplicial complex of maps between simplicial complexes defined in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Andrew J. Blumberg , Michael A. Mandell

We describe various path homology theories constructed for a directed hypergraph. We introduce the category of directed hypergraphs and the notion of a homotopy in this category. Also, we investigate the functoriality and the homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Yuri Muranov , Anna Szczepkowska , Vladimir Vershinin

In this article we consider the homotopy theory of stratified spaces through a simplicial point of view. We first consider a model category of filtered simplicial sets over some fixed poset $P$, and show that it is a simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Sylvain Douteau

We want to investigate 'spaces' where paths have a 'weight', or 'cost', expressing length, duration, price, energy, etc. The weight function is not assumed to be invariant up to path-reversion. Thus, 'weighted algebraic topology' can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marco Grandis

We introduce and study the proper topological complexity of a given configuration space, a version of the classical invariant for which we require that the algorithm controlling the motion is able to avoid any possible choice of ``unsafe''…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jose M. Garcia-Calcines , Aniceto Murillo

Given a compact metric space $X$, we associate to it an inverse sequence of finite $T_0$ topological spaces. The inverse limit of this inverse sequence contains a homeomorphic copy of $X$ that is a strong deformation retract. We provide a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Pedro J. Chocano , Manuel A. Morón , Francisco R. Ruiz del Portal

For a smooth spacetime $X$, based on the timelike homotopy classes of its timelike paths, we define a topology on $X$ that refines the Alexandrov topology and always coincides with the manifold topology. The space of timelike or causal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Martin Günther

We identify Grandis' directed spaces as a full reflective subcategory of the category of multipointed $d$-spaces. When the multipointed $d$-space realizes a precubical set, its reflection coincides with the standard realization of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Philippe Gaucher

Homotopy type theory is a logical setting in which one can perform geometric constructions and proofs in a synthetic way. Namely, types can be interpreted as spaces up to homotopy, and proofs as homotopy invariant constructions. In this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Samuel Mimram , Émile Oleon

We introduce the weighted path homology on the category of weigh\-ted directed hypergraphs and describe conditions of homotopy invariance of weighted path homology groups. We give several examples that explain the nontriviality of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Y. Muranov , A. Szczepkowska , V. Vershinin

We show that the notions of homotopy epimorphism and homological epimorphism in the category of differential graded algebras are equivalent. As an application we obtain a characterization of acyclic maps of topological spaces in terms of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Joe Chuang , Andrey Lazarev

Symmetric transverse sets were introduced to make the construction of the parallel product with synchronization for process algebras functorial. It is proved that one can do directed homotopy on symmetric transverse sets in the following…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Philippe Gaucher

Let $K$ be an arbitrary semi-cubical set that can be embedded in a standard cube. Using Discrete Morse Theory, we construct a CW-complex that is homotopy equivalent to the space $\vec{P}(K)_v^w$ of directed paths between two given vertices…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Krzysztof Ziemiański

We define and study homotopy groups of cubical sets. To this end, we give four definitions of homotopy groups of a cubical set, prove that they are equivalent, and further that they agree with their topological analogues via the geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Daniel Carranza , Chris Kapulkin

In this paper we analyze some relationships between the topological complexity of a space $X$ and the category of $C_{\Delta_X},$ the homotopy cofibre of the diagonal map $\Delta_X:X\rightarrow X\times X.$ We establish the equality of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-02-23 J. Calcines , L. Vandembroucq

A stratified space is a topological space together with a decomposition into strata corresponding to different types of singularities. Examples of such spaces appear everywhere in topology and geometry. The study of stratified spaces…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Sylvain Douteau