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In this paper we provide an explicit connection between level-sets persistence and derived sheaf theory over the real line. In particular we construct a functor from 2-parameter persistence modules to sheaves over $\mathbb{R}$, as well as a…

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We develop a general theory of extensions of flat functors along geometric morphisms of toposes, and apply it to the study of the class of theories whose classifying topos is equivalent to a presheaf topos. As a result, we obtain a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Olivia Caramello

We perform a refined complexity-theoretic analysis of three classical problems in the context of Hierarchical Task Network Planning: the verification of a provided plan, whether an executable plan exists, and whether a given state can be…

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In this paper we explore the noncommutative analogues, $\mathrm{VP}_{nc}$ and $\mathrm{VNP}_{nc}$, of Valiant's algebraic complexity classes and show some striking connections to classical formal language theory. Our main results are the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-04 V. Arvind , Pushkar S Joglekar , S. Raja

In the framework of Abstract Differential Geometry, we show that to a given principal sheaf and a representation of its stuctural sheaf in $A^n$, where A is a sheaf of associative, commutative, unital algebras (over R or C), we associate a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-29 E. Vassiliou

We develop some aspects of the homological algebra of persistence modules, in both the one-parameter and multi-parameter settings, considered as either sheaves or graded modules. The two theories are different. We consider the graded module…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Peter Bubenik , Nikola Milicevic

We propose an extension of the framework for discussing the computational complexity of problems involving uncountably many objects, such as real numbers, sets and functions, that can be represented only through approximation. The key idea…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Akitoshi Kawamura , Stephen Cook

By universal formulas we understand parameterized analytic expressions that have a fixed complexity, but nevertheless can approximate any continuous function on a compact set. There exist various examples of such formulas, including some in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Dmitry Yarotsky

We generalise sheaf models of intuitionistic logic to univalent type theory over a small category with a Grothendieck topology. We use in a crucial way that we have constructive models of univalence, that can then be relativized to any…

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Toda proved in 1989 that the (discrete) polynomial time hierarchy, $\mathbf{PH}$, is contained in the class $\mathbf{P}^{#\mathbf{P}}$, namely the class of languages that can be decided by a Turing machine in polynomial time given access to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Saugata Basu , Thierry Zell

For a smooth morphism $f: X \longrightarrow \Sigma$ of real analytic manifolds and an $\mathbb{R}$-constructible sheaf $F$ on $X$ satisfying some condition, we define a family of Lagrangian cycles parameterized by $\Sigma$ that we call the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ren Fernandes , Kazuki Kudomi , Kiyoshi Takeuchi

Order types are a well known abstraction of combinatorial properties of a point set. By Mn\"ev's universality theorem for each semi-algebraic set $V$ there is an order type with a realization space that is \emph{stably equivalent} to $V$.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Udo Hoffmann , Keno Merckx

In this paper we construct a tilting sheaf for Severi-Brauer Varieties and Involution Varieties. This sheaf relates the derived category of each variety to the derived category of modules over a ring whose semisimple component consists of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Mark Blunk

In these notes, an introduction to derived categories and derived functors is given. The main focus is the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on a smooth projective variety.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Andreas Hochenegger

Treating a conjecture, P^#P != NP, on the separation of complexity classes as an axiom, an implication is found in three manifold topology with little obvious connection to complexity theory. This is reminiscent of Harvey Friedman's work on…

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We study the approximation by tensor networks (TNs) of functions from classical smoothness classes. The considered approximation tool combines a tensorization of functions in $L^p([0,1))$, which allows to identify a univariate function with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Mazen Ali , Anthony Nouy

In 1979 Valiant showed that the complexity class VP_e of families with polynomially bounded formula size is contained in the class VP_s of families that have algebraic branching programs (ABPs) of polynomially bounded size. Motivated by the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Karl Bringmann , Christian Ikenmeyer , Jeroen Zuiddam

We introduce a sheaf-theoretic characterization of task solvability in general distributed computing models, unifying distinct approaches to message-passing models. We establish cellular sheaves as a natural mathematical framework for…

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The space of constructible functions form a dense subspace of the space of generalized valuations. In this note we prove a somewhat stronger property that the sequential closure, taken sufficiently many (in fact, infinitely many) times, of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Semyon Alesker

The technique of "classical realizability" is an extension of the method of "forcing"; it permits to extend the Curry-Howard correspondence between proofs and programs, to Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and to build new models of ZF, called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Jean-Louis Krivine