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The Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) was introduced in the field of Topological Data Analysis about 10 years ago, and has since been proven to be a very powerful descriptor of Euclidean shapes. The PHT consists of scanning a shape from…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Adam Onus , Nina Otter , Renata Turkes

We introduce the concept of parametrized homotopic distance, extending the classical notion of homotopic distance to the fibrewise setting. We establish its correspondence with the fibrewise sectional category of a specific fibrewise…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Navnath Daundkar , J. M. García-Calcines

The concept of homotopic distance and its higher analog are introduced in [6]. In this paper we introduce some important properties of higher homotopic distance, investigate the conditions under which $\cat$, $\secat$ and higher dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Ayse Borat , Tane Vergili

One of the prime motivation for topology was Homotopy theory, which captures the general idea of a continuous transformation between two entities, which may be spaces or maps. In later decades, an algebraic formulation of topology was…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Suddhasattwa Das

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

Classical persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool for shape comparison. Unfortunately, it is not tailored to study the action of transformation groups that are different from the group Homeo(X) of all self-homeomorphisms of a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Patrizio Frosini

Persistence homology is a tool used to measure topological features that are present in data sets and functions. Persistence pairs births and deaths of these features as we iterate through the sublevel sets of the data or function of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Brittany Terese Fasy

Persistent homology is a vital tool for topological data analysis. Previous work has developed some statistical estimators for characteristics of collections of persistence diagrams. However, tools that provide statistical inference for…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-23 Andrew Robinson , Katharine Turner

Multidimensional persistence studies topological features of shapes by analyzing the lower level sets of vector-valued functions. The rank invariant completely determines the multidimensional analogue of persistent homology groups. We prove…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Andrea Cerri , Barbara Di Fabio , Massimo Ferri , Patrizio Frosini , Claudia Landi

We define and develop two-level type theory (2LTT), a version of Martin-L\"of type theory which combines two different type theories. We refer to them as the inner and the outer type theory. In our case of interest, the inner theory is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Danil Annenkov , Paolo Capriotti , Nicolai Kraus , Christian Sattler

We define a new notion---the sub-index of a critical point of a distance function. We show how sub-index affects the homotopy type of sublevel sets of distance functions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Barbara Herzog , Frederick Wilhelm

In many scientific and technological contexts we have only a poor understanding of the structure and details of appropriate mathematical models. We often, therefore, need to compare different models. With available data we can use formal…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sean T. Vittadello , Michael P. H. Stumpf

We consider two categories related to symplectic manifolds: 1. Objects are symplectic manifolds and morphisms are symplectic embeddings. 2. Objects are symplectic manifolds endowed with compatible almost complex structure and morphisms are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Vardan Oganesyan

The distance function to a compact set plays a crucial role in the paradigm of topological data analysis. In particular, the sublevel sets of the distance function are used in the computation of persistent homology -- a backbone of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Siddharth Vishwanath , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu , Satoshi Kuriki

We show that both Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and topological complexity are particular cases of a more general notion, that we call homotopic distance between two maps. As a consequence, several properties of those invariants can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-24 E. Macías-Virgós , D. Mosquera-Lois

In condensed matter physics and related areas, topological defects play important roles in phase transitions and critical phenomena. Homotopy theory facilitates the classification of such topological defects. After a pedagogic introduction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-28 Ralph Kenna

We introduce and study the notion of \emph{equivariant homotopic distance} $D_G(f,g)$ between $G$-maps $f,g \colon X \to Y$. We show that the equivariant Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and the equivariant topological complexity are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Navnath Daundkar , J. M. García-Calcines

Symmetry is ubiquitous throughout nature and can often give great insights into the formation, structure and stability of objects studied by mathematicians, physicists, chemists and biologists. However, perfect symmetry occurs rarely so…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Nicholas Bermingham , Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner

We introduce Displayed Type Theory (dTT), a multi-modal homotopy type theory with discrete and simplicial modes. In the intended semantics, the discrete mode is interpreted by a model for an arbitrary $\infty$-topos, while the simplicial…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Astra Kolomatskaia , Michael Shulman

This paper defines homology in homotopy type theory, in the process stable homotopy groups are also defined. Previous research in synthetic homotopy theory is relied on, in particular the definition of cohomology. This work lays the…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Robert Graham