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Let $S$ be a complete flat surface, such as the Euclidean plane. We determine the homeomorphism class of the space of all curves on $S$ which start and end at given points in given directions and whose curvatures are constrained to lie in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Nicolau C. Saldanha , Pedro Zühlke

We develop a method for measuring homology classes. This involves three problems. First, we define the size of a homology class, using ideas from relative homology. Second, we define an optimal basis of a homology group to be the basis…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Chao Chen , Daniel Freedman

We propose sublinear algorithms for probabilistic testing of the discrete and continuous Fr\'echet distance - a standard similarity measure for curves. We assume the algorithm is given access to the input curves via a query oracle: a query…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Peyman Afshani , Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Marena Richter , Sampson Wong

With the use of ontologies in several domains such as semantic web, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, the concept of similarity measuring has become a very important domain of research. Therefore, in the current paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Noreddine Gherabi , Abdelhadi Daoui , Abderrahim Marzouk

This paper shows a mathematical formalization, algorithms and computation software of volume optimal cycles, which are useful to understand geometric features shown in a persistence diagram. Volume optimal cycles give us concrete and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Ippei Obayashi

For two closed curves on a plane (discrete version) and local criteria for similarity of points on the curves one gets a potential, which describes the similarity between curve points. This is the base for a global similarity measure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Manfred Harringer

Cyclomatic complexity is an incompletely specified but mathematically principled software metric that can be usefully applied to both source and binary code. We consider the application of path homology as a stronger analogue of cyclomatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Steve Huntsman

We compute the cohomology groups of the spaces of colorings of cycles, i.e., of the prodsimplicial complexes Hom(C_m,K_n). We perform the computation first with Z_2, and then with integer coefficients. The main technical tool is to use…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry N. Kozlov

Quantifying the similarity between two graphs is a fundamental algorithmic problem at the heart of many data analysis tasks for graph-based data. In this paper, we study the computational complexity of a family of similarity measures based…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Timo Gervens , Martin Grohe

Cycle representatives of persistent homology classes can be used to provide descriptions of topological features in data. However, the non-uniqueness of these representatives creates ambiguity and can lead to many different interpretations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Lu Li , Connor Thompson , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Chad Giusti , Lori Ziegelmeier

Despite a blossoming of research activity on racks and their homology for over two decades, with a record of diverse applications to central parts of contemporary mathematics, there are still very few examples of racks whose homology has…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Victoria Lebed , Markus Szymik

Closure spaces are a generalisation of topological spaces obtained by removing the idempotence requirement on the closure operator. We adapt the standard notion of bisimilarity for topological models, namely Topo-bisimilarity, to closure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Vincenzo Ciancia , Diego Latella , Mieke Massink Erik de Vink

We consider the problem of clustering misaligned curves. According to our similarity measure, two curves are considered similar if they have the same shape after being aligned, and the warping function does not differ from the identity…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-03 Yu-Hsiang Cheng , Tzee-Ming Huang , Su-Fen Yang

Neural manifolds summarize the intrinsic structure of the information encoded by a population of neurons. Advances in experimental techniques have made simultaneous recordings from multiple brain regions increasingly commonplace, raising…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-27 Iris H. R. Yoon , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Yiyi Yu , Robert Ghrist , Spencer LaVere Smith , Chad Giusti

In motion planning problems for autonomous robots, such as self-driving cars, the robot must ensure that its planned path is not in close proximity to obstacles in the environment. However, the problem of evaluating the proximity is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Arun Lakshmanan , Andrew Patterson , Venanzio Cichella , Naira Hovakimyan

This article proposes an algorithm that constructs a Sullivan minimal model for any simply connected simplicial set with effective homology and thereby allows one to decide algorithmically whether two simply connected spaces represented by…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Mária Šimková

The homological and homotopical Dehn functions are different ways of measuring the difficulty of filling a closed curve inside a group or a space. The homological Dehn function measures fillings of cycles by chains, while the homotopical…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Aaron Abrams , Noel Brady , Pallavi Dani , Robert Young

This paper is concerned with the computation of an optimal matching between two manifold-valued curves. Curves are seen as elements of an infinite-dimensional manifold and compared using a Riemannian metric that is invariant under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Alice Le Brigant , Marc Arnaudon , Frédéric Barbaresco

The aim of this study is to analyze the properties of harmonic fields in the vicinity of rough boundaries where either a constant potential or a zero flux is imposed, while a constant field is prescribed at an infinite distance from this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Damien Vandembroucq , Stephane Roux

The task of approximating points with circular arcs is performed in many applications, such as polyline compression, noise filtering, and feature recognition. However, the development of algorithms that perform a significant amount of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Alexander Gribov