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Euclidean geometry has historically played a central role in cultivating logical reasoning and abstract thinking within mathematics education, but has experienced waning emphasis in recent curricula. The resurgence of interest, driven by…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Michael Bouzinier , Sergey Trifonov , Matthew Chen , Tarun Venkatesh , Lielle Rifkin

The notion of a coherent space is a nonlinear version of the notion of a complex Euclidean space: The vector space axioms are dropped while the notion of inner product is kept. Coherent spaces provide a setting for the study of geometry in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Arnold Neumaier

Recent discoveries have demonstrated that matter can be distinguished on the basis of topological considerations, giving rise to the concept of topological phase. Introduced originally in condensed matter physics, the physics of topological…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Jeffrey B. Parker

A fundamental characteristic of computer networks is their topological structure. The question of the description of the structural characteristics of computer networks represents a problem that is not completely solved. Search methods for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Carlos E. Frasser

Data science offers a powerful tool to understand objects in multiple sciences. In this paper we utilize concept of data science, most notably topological data analysis, to extend our understanding of knot theory. This approach provides a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Pawel Dlotko , Davide Gurnari , Radmila Sazdanovic

These are some informal notes concerning topological vector spaces, with a brief overview of background material and basic notions, and emphasis on examples related to classical analysis.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen Semmes

Topological photonics is emerging as a new paradigm for the development of both classical and quantum photonic architectures. What makes topological photonics remarkably intriguing is the built-in protection as well as intrinsic…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-30 Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad , Sunil Mittal , Mohammad Hafezi

In this work, we explore the state-space formulation of network processes to recover the underlying structure of the network (local connections). To do so, we employ subspace techniques borrowed from system identification literature and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Mario Coutino , Elvin Isufi , Takanori Maehara , Geert Leus

We study necessary conditions on the geometry and the topology of domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that support a positive solution to a classical overdetermined elliptic problem. The ideas and tools we use come from constant mean curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Antonio Ros , Pieralberto Sicbaldi

Universe structure emerges in the unreduced, complex-dynamical interaction process with the simplest initial configuration (two attracting homogeneous fields). The unreduced interaction analysis avoiding any perturbative model gives…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

Few physical systems with topologies more complicated than simple gaussian linking have been explored in detail. Here we focus on examples with higher topologies in non-relativistic quantum mechanics and in QCD.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-25 Roman V. Buniy , Martha J. Holmes , Thomas W. Kephart

Topology, a well-established concept in mathematics, has nowadays become essential to describe condensed matter. At its core are chiral electron states on the bulk, surfaces and edges of the condensed matter systems, in which spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth

Current theories of particle physics lead to the unavoidable conclusion that there must have been several phase transitions in the early universe. Further, in the context of these theories, it is possible that cosmological phase transitions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tanmay Vachaspati

General relativity is unable to determine the topology of the Universe. We propose to apply quantum approach. Quantization of dynamics of a test particle is sensitive to the spacetime topology. Presented results for a particle in de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz Piechocki

Knot theory provides a powerful tool for the understanding of topological matters in biology, chemistry, and physics. Here knot theory is introduced to describe topological phases in the quantum spin system. Exactly solvable models with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-24 X. M. Yang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Toposes can be pictured as mathematical universes. Besides the standard topos, in which most of mathematics unfolds, there is a colorful host of alternate toposes in which mathematics plays out slightly differently. For instance, there are…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Ingo Blechschmidt

In this article we give the basic concept of the "Topological Numbers" in theory of quasiperiodic functions. The main attention is paid to apperance of such values in transport phenomena including Galvanomagnetic phenomena in normal metals…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Maltsev , S. P. Novikov

Topological defects (TDs) are crucial for understanding important physical properties of crystalline materials including mechanical failure, ion transport, and two-dimensional melting. This concept has not translated to disordered materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Matteo Baggioli , Michael L. Falk , Walter Kob

The research effort reported in this paper is directed, in a broad sense, towards understanding the small-scale structure of spacetime. The fundamental question that guides our discussion is ``what is the physical content of spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Ulvi Yurtsever

The global topology of the Universe could, in principle, affect quantum systems through boundary condition constraints. We investigate this connection by analyzing how compact, flat, cosmologically inspired topologies, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Evangelos Achilleas Paraskevas , Leandros Perivolaropoulos