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We show how to compute the circular area invariant of planar curves, and the spherical volume invariant of surfaces, in terms of line and surface integrals, respectively. We use the Divergence Theorem to express the area and volume…

We present an algorithm for the computation of the topological type of a real compact Riemann surface associated to an algebraic curve, i.e., its genus and the properties of the set of fixed points of the anti-holomorphic involution $\tau$,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-24 C. Kalla , C. Klein

Knots, links and entangled filaments appear in many physical systems of interest in biology and engineering. Classifying knots and measuring entanglement is of interest both for advancing knot theory, as well as for analyzing large data…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Kasturi Barkataki , Eleni Panagiotou

Finite-order invariants of knots in arbitrary 3-manifolds (including non-orientable ones) are constructed and studied by methods of the topology of discriminant sets. Obstructions to the integrability of admissible weight systems to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Victor A. Vassiliev

In this paper, we will present some ideas to use 3D topology for quantum computing. Topological quantum computing in the usual sense works with an encoding of information as knotted quantum states of topological phases of matter, thus being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga

Invariants withstand transformations and, therefore, represent the essence of objects or phenomena. In mathematics, transformations often constitute a group action. Since the 19th century, studying the structure of various types of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Irina A. Kogan

I present a fault-tolerant quantum computing method for 2D architectures that is particularly appealing for photonic qubits. It relies on a crossover of techniques from topological stabilizer codes and measurement based quantum computation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Hector Bombin

We present some algorithms that provide useful topological information about curves in surfaces. One of the main algorithms computes the geometric intersection number of two properly embedded 1-manifolds $C_1$ and $C_2$ in a compact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Marc Lackenby

TopologicalNumbers.jl is an open-source Julia package designed to calculate topological invariants, mathematical quantities that characterize the properties of materials in condensed matter physics. These invariants, such as the Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Keisuke Adachi , Minoru Kanega

Visual object counting is a fundamental computer vision task underpinning numerous real-world applications, from cell counting in biomedicine to traffic and wildlife monitoring. However, existing methods struggle to handle the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Corentin Dumery , Noa Etté , Aoxiang Fan , Ren Li , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Topological data analysis is an emerging field that applies the study of topological invariants to data. Perhaps the simplest of these invariants is the number of connected components or clusters. In this work, we explore a topological…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ian Stewart Joyce , Grant Erdmann , Kirk P. Gardner , Ryan Kramer , Kyle Siegrist

We consider the problem of calculating the weak and strong topological indices in noncentrosymmetric time-reversal (T) invariant insulators. In 2D we use a gauge corresponding to hybrid Wannier functions that are maximally localized in one…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-07 Alexey A. Soluyanov , David Vanderbilt

In theory of topological classification, the 2D topological superconductors without time reversal symmetry are characterized by Chern numbers. However, in reality, we find the Chern numbers can not reveal the whole properties of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-04 Jinpeng Xiao , Qianglin Hu , Huiqiong Zeng , Xiaobing Luo

With a view towards providing tools for analyzing and understanding digitized images, various notions from algebraic topology have been introduced into the setting of digital topology. In the ordinary topological setting, invariants such as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Gregory Lupton , John Oprea , Nicholas A. Scoville

In this paper, the degenerate ground states of Z2 topological order on a plane with holes (the so-called surface codes) are used as the protected code subspace to build a topological quantum computer by tuning their quantum tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Su-Peng Kou

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

Two geometric spaces are in the same topological class if they are related by certain geometric deformations. We propose machine learning methods that automate learning of topological invariance and apply it in the context of knot theory,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-18 James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

J.H.C. Whitehead introduced the concept of crossed modules in the early 20th century. These crossed modules are crucial for algebraic models of 2-type homotopy, which involve connected spaces with no higher than second-degree homotopy…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Tommy Shu

We propose a local-to-global representation learning algorithm for 3D point cloud data, which is appropriate to handle various geometric transformations, especially rotation, without explicit data augmentation with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Seohyun Kim , Jaeyoo Park , Bohyung Han

We discuss some bulk-surfaces gapped Hamiltonians on a lattice with corners and propose a periodic table for topological invariants related to corner states aimed at studies of higher-order topological insulators. Our table is based on four…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Shin Hayashi