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Certain geometric properties of submanifolds of configuration space are numerically investigated for classical lattice phi^4 models in one and two dimensions. Peculiar behaviors of the computed geometric quantities are found only in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto Franzosi , Lapo Casetti , Lionel Spinelli , Marco Pettini

Articulated objects like doors, drawers, valves, and tools are pervasive in our everyday unstructured dynamic environments. Articulation models describe the joint nature between the different parts of an articulated object. As most of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Yeshasvi Tirupachuri , Silvio Traversaro , Francesco Nori , Daniele Pucci

A topological dynamical system $(X,f)$ induces two natural systems, one is on the probability measure spaces and other one is on the hyperspace. We introduce a concept for these two spaces, which is called entropy order, and prove that it…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Yong Ji , Ercai Chen , Xiaoyao Zhou

In architecture, city planning, visual arts, and other design areas, shapes are often made with points, or with structural representations based on point-sets. Shapes made with points can be understood more generally as finite arrangements…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Alexandros Haridis

Studying spacetimes with continuous symmetries by dimensional reduction to a lower dimensional spacetime is a well known technique in field theory and gravity. Recently, its use has been advocated in numerical relativity as an efficient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Brannlund , S. Slobodov , K. Schleich , D. M. Witt

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

We construct new topological theories related to sigma models whose target space is a seven dimensional manifold of G_2 holonomy. We define a new type of topological twist and identify the BRST operator and the physical states. Unlike the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jan de Boer , Asad Naqvi , Assaf Shomer

This paper is devoted to the study of induced topological pressure, including both classical and nonlinear cases. For the classical induced topological pressure, we investigate equilibrium states, subdifferential and freezing states, while…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Wenhui Ma , Yun Zhao , Hanjing Zhu

Topology transcends boundaries that conventionally delineate physical, biological and engineering sciences. Our ability to mathematically describe topology, combined with our access to precision tracking and manipulation approaches, has…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Anupam Sengupta

We define a graph encoding the structure of contact surgery on contact 3-manifolds and analyze its basic properties and some of its interesting subgraphs.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marc Kegel , Sinem Onaran

Recurrence is a fundamental characteristic of dynamical systems with complicated behavior. Understanding the inner structure of recurrence is challenging, especially if the system has many degrees of freedom and is subject to noise. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Ulrich Bauer , David Hien , Oliver Junge , Konstantin Mischaikow

We present a class of mappings between models with topological mass mechanism and purely topological models in arbitrary dimensions. These mappings are established by directly mapping the fields of one model in terms of the fields of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. P. G. Amaral , O. S. Ventura , L. O. Buffon , J V Costa

In many areas of applied mathematics, engineering, and social and natural sciences, decentralization of information is a key aspect determining how to approach a problem. In this review article, we study information structures in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Naci Saldi , Serdar Yuksel

This paper presents the principal challenges and opportunities associated with computational biomechanics research. The underlying cognitive control involved in the process of human motion is inherently complex, dynamic, multidimensional,…

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

Knot diagrams are among the most common visual tools in topology. Computer programs now make it possible to draw, manipulate and render them digitally, which proves to be useful in knot theory teaching and research. Still, an openly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Lennart Finke , Edmund Weitz

Knots are entangled structures that cannot be untangled without a cut. Topological stability of knots is one of the many examples of their important properties that can be used in information storage and transfer. Knot dynamics is important…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-04 Hyo Jung Park , Anna Lappala

Recent studies on viscous streaming flows in two dimensions have elucidated the impact of body curvature variations on resulting flow topology and dynamics, with opportunities for microfluidic applications. Following that, we present here a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Fan Kiat Chan , Yashraj Bhosale , Tejaswin Parthasarathy , Mattia Gazzola

The three-dimensional topologies of the membrane of M-theory can be constructed by performing Dehn surgery along knot lines. We investigate membranes wrapped around a circle and the correponding subset of topologies (Seifert manifolds). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Christof Schmidhuber

Abundant in nature, colloids also find increasingly important applications in science and technology, ranging from direct probing of kinetics in crystals and glasses to fabrication of third-generation quantum-dot solar cells. Because…