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The context of this paper is the use of formal methods for topology-based geometric modelling. Topology-based geometric modelling deals with objects of various dimensions and shapes. Usually, objects are defined by a graph-based topological…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Thomas Bellet , Agnès Arnould , Pascale Le Gall

We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-05 Vsevolod Salnikov , Daniele Cassese , Renaud Lambiotte

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Alexandr Prishlyak

Recently, continuous representation methods emerge as novel paradigms that characterize the intrinsic structures of real-world data through function representations that map positional coordinates to their corresponding values in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yisi Luo , Xile Zhao , Deyu Meng

Topological correctness is critical for segmentation of tubular structures, which pervade in biomedical images. Existing topological segmentation loss functions are primarily based on the persistent homology of the image. They match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Wen , Haochen Zhang , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Topological methods can provide a way of proposing new metrics and methods of scrutinising data, that otherwise may be overlooked. In this work, a method of quantifying the shape of data, via a topic called topological data analysis will be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-25 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

This paper brings together three distinct theories with the goal of quantifying shape textures with complex morphologies. Distance fields are central objects in shape representation, while topological data analysis uses algebraic topology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Anna Song , Ka Man Yim , Anthea Monod

The theory of multidimensional persistent homology was initially developed in the discrete setting, and involved the study of simplicial complexes filtered through an ordering of the simplices. Later, stability properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Niccolò Cavazza , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi

Complexes and cohomology, traditionally central to topology, have emerged as fundamental tools across applied mathematics and the sciences. This survey explores their roles in diverse areas, from partial differential equations and continuum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Kaibo Hu

Geometric, topological and graph theory modeling and analysis of biomolecules are of essential importance in the conceptualization of molecular structure, function, dynamics, and transport. On the one hand, geometric modeling provides…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-07 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

We start with a simple introduction to topological data analysis where the most popular tool is called a persistent diagram. Briefly, a persistent diagram is a multiset of points in the plane describing the persistence of topological…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Christophe Biscio , Jesper Møller

We fully generalize a previously-developed computational geometry tool [1] to perform large-scale simulations of arbitrary two-dimensional faceted surfaces $z = h(x,y)$. Our method uses a three-component facet/edge/junction storage model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Scott A. Norris , Stephen J. Watson

Graphs are a basic tool for the representation of modern data. The richness of the topological information contained in a graph goes far beyond its mere interpretation as a one-dimensional simplicial complex. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Lorenzo Zuffi

The Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is a data model providing a set of binary Boolean operators such as Union, Difference and Intersection. In this work, these operators are used to compute topological relations between objects defined by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Helmi Ben Hmida , Christophe Cruz , Frank Boochs , Christophe Nicolle

Understanding the topological structure of phase space for dynamical systems in higher dimensions is critical for numerous applications, including the computation of chemical reaction rates and transport of objects in the solar system. Many…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Joshua G. Arenson , Kevin A. Mitchell

We study the persistent homology of both functional data on compact topological spaces and structural data presented as compact metric measure spaces. One of our goals is to define persistent homology so as to capture primarily properties…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Haibin Hang , Facundo Mémoli , Washington Mio

Modern business and economic datasets often exhibit nonlinear, multi-scale structures that traditional linear tools under-represent. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a geometric lens for uncovering robust patterns, such as connected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Ioannis Diamantis

We propose to model the topology of three-dimensional (3D) continua by Yin sets, regular open semianalytic sets with bounded boundary. Our model differs from manifold-based models in that singular points of a 3D continuum, i.e., boundary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Hao Liang , Yunhao Qiu , Yan Tan , Qinghai Zhang

The use of topology for visualisation applications has become increasingly popular due to its ability to summarise data at a high level. Criticalities in scalar field data are used by visualisation methods such as the Reeb graph and contour…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-31 Dean P Thomas , Rita Borgo , Simon Hands

Understanding the topological characteristics of data is important to many areas of research. Recent work has demonstrated that synthetic 4D image-type data can be useful to train 4D convolutional neural network models to see topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Khalil Mathieu Hannouch , Stephan Chalup