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We perform topological data analysis on the internal states of convolutional deep neural networks to develop an understanding of the computations that they perform. We apply this understanding to modify the computations so as to (a) speed…

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A stirring device consisting of a periodic motion of rods induces a mapping of the fluid domain to itself, which can be regarded as a homeomorphism of a punctured surface. Having the rods undergo a topologically-complex motion guarantees at…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-08-27 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Matthew D. Finn , Emmanuelle Gouillart , Toby Hall

We apply the geometric-topology surgery theory on spacetime manifolds to study the constraints of quantum statistics data in 2+1 and 3+1 spacetime dimensions. First, we introduce the fusion data for worldline and worldsheet operators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-15 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Shing-Tung Yau

In many areas of applied geometric/numeric computational mathematics, including geo-mapping, computer vision, computer graphics, finite element analysis, medical imaging, geometric design, and solid modeling, one has to compute incidences,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alberto Paoluzzi , Vadim Shapiro , Antonio DiCarlo , Francesco Furiani , Giulio Martella , Giorgio Scorzelli

The global topology of the Universe can affect long-range gravitational forces via boundary conditions. Detailed studies of non-trivial topologies require simulations that natively adopt such geometries. Cosmological $N$-body simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Gábor Rácz , Viola H. Varga , Balázs Pál , István Szapudi , István Csabai , Till Sawala

Topological simplification is the process of reducing complexity of a function while maintaining its essential features. Its goal is to find a new filter function, which reorders cells of the input complex in a way which eliminates some…

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An introduction to the applications of algebraic surgery to the structure theory of high-dimensional topological manifolds.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Ranicki

Dynamical chaos is a term that encompasses a wide range of nonlinear phenomena such as turbulence, neuronal avalanches, weather patterns, and many others. However, despite much work in the field of chaos, its fundamental physical origin…

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Active matter encompasses different nonequilibrium systems in which individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale. This review provides an elementary introduction to the role of topology in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-28 Suraj Shankar , Anton Souslov , Mark J. Bowick , M. Cristina Marchetti , Vincenzo Vitelli

Under certain homological hypotheses on a compact 4-manifold, we prove exactness of the topological surgery sequence at the stably smoothable normal invariants. The main examples are the class of finite connected sums of 4-manifolds with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Qayum Khan

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) can be used to detect and characterize holes in an image, such as zero-dimensional holes (connected components) or one-dimensional holes (loops). However, there is currently no widely accepted statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Susan Glenn , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Jun Zhu , William M Bement

Topological data analysis refers to approaches for systematically and reliably computing abstract ``shapes'' of complex data sets. There are various applications of topological data analysis in life and data sciences, with growing interest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis

The protein folding problem must ultimately be solved on all length scales from the atomic up through a hierarchy of complicated structures. By analyzing the stability of the folding process using physics and mathematics, this paper shows…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Simmons , Joel L. Weiner

We introduce Topological Offsets, a novel approach to generate manifold and self-intersection-free offset surfaces that are topologically equivalent to an offset infinitesimally close to the surface. Our approach, by construction, creates a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Daniel Zint , Zhouyuan Chen , Yifei Zhu , Denis Zorin , Teseo Schneider , Daniele Panozzo

Many geometry processing pipelines implicitly assume their input data is a manifold, or is sampled from one, with a unique tangent plane at every point. Geometric data, however, routinely contains sharp features like edges, corners,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alice Petrov , Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh , Ana Dodik , Justin Solomon

We give a survey of geometric approaches to the topological 4-dimensional surgery and 5-dimensional s-cobordism conjectures, with a focus on the study of surfaces in 4-manifolds. The geometric lemma underlying these conjectures is a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vyacheslav Krushkal

This paper is a review of results which have been recently obtained by applying mathematical concepts drawn, in particular, from differential geometry and topology, to the physics of Hamiltonian dynamical systems with many degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lapo Casetti , Marco Pettini , E. G. D. Cohen

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

We develop a language for describing the relationship among observations, mathematical models, and the underlying principles from which they are derived. Using Information Geometry, we consider geometric properties of statistical models for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-07-14 Mark K. Transtrum , Gus Hart , Peng Qiu

Stochastic processes are commonly used models to describe dynamics of a wide variety of nonequilibrium phenomena ranging from electrical transport to biological motion. The transition matrix describing a stochastic process can be regarded…

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