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Magnitude is an isometric invariant of metric spaces introduced by Leinster. Since its inception, it has inspired active research into its connections with integral geometry, geometric measure theory, fractal dimensions, persistent…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Sara Kališnik , Davorin Lešnik

In this paper we explore the algebraic structure and combinatorial properties of eulerian magnitude homology. First, we analyze the diagonality conditions of eulerian magnitude homology, providing a characterization of complete graphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Luigi Caputi , Giuliamaria Menara

Hepworth, Willerton, Leinster and Shulman introduced the magnitude homology groups for enriched categories, in particular, for metric spaces. The purpose of this paper is to describe the magnitude homology group of a metric space in terms…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Ryuki Kaneta , Masahiko Yoshinaga

In this paper we explore the connection between the ranks of the magnitude homology groups of a graph and the structure of its subgraphs. To this end, we introduce variants of magnitude homology called eulerian magnitude homology and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Chad Giusti , Giuliamaria Menara

Deep learning models have seen significant successes in numerous applications, but their inner workings remain elusive. The purpose of this work is to quantify the learning process of deep neural networks through the lens of a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rayna Andreeva , Katharina Limbeck , Bastian Rieck , Rik Sarkar

The magnitude of a metric space is a novel invariant that provides a measure of the 'effective size' of a space across multiple scales, while also capturing numerous geometrical properties, such as curvature, density, or entropy. We develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Katharina Limbeck , Rayna Andreeva , Rik Sarkar , Bastian Rieck

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

There is a general notion of the magnitude of an enriched category, defined subject to hypotheses. In topological and geometric contexts, magnitude is already known to be closely related to classical invariants such as Euler characteristic…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Joseph Chuang , Alastair King , Tom Leinster

We propose a definition of magnitude for a length space with a Borel measure, which involves integrals over the set of geodesics. This quantity agrees with the magnitude of finite metric spaces, up to re-scaling the metric to ensure the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yoshinori Hashimoto

In this paper we introduce the persistent magnitude, a new numerical invariant of (sufficiently nice) graded persistence modules. It is a weighted and signed count of the bars of the persistence module, in which a bar of the form $[a,b)$ in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Dejan Govc , Richard Hepworth

In this article, we analyze the structure and relationships between magnitude homology and Eulerian magnitude homology of finite graphs. Building on the work of Kaneta and Yoshinaga, Sazdanovic and Summers, and Asao and Izumihara, we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Patrick Martin , Radmila Sazdanovic

Magnitude of a finite metric space and the related notion of magnitude functions on metric spaces is an active area of research in algebraic topology. Magnitude originally arose in the context of biology, where it represents the number of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Glenn Fung , Eric Bunch , Dan Dickinson

In this paper we define the magnitude of metric spaces using measures rather than finite subsets as had been done previously and show that this agrees with earlier work with Leinster in arXiv:0908.1582. An explicit formula for the magnitude…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Simon Willerton

Magnitude is a canonical invariant of finite metric spaces which has its origins in category theory; it is analogous to cardinality of finite sets. Here, by approximating certain compact subsets of Euclidean space with finite subsets, the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Tom Leinster , Simon Willerton

Tools of Topological Data Analysis provide stable summaries encapsulating the shape of the considered data. Persistent homology, the most standard and well studied data summary, suffers a number of limitations; its computations are hard to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Paweł Dłotko , Davide Gurnari

The topology and geometry of random fields - in terms of the Euler characteristic and the Minkowski functionals - has received a lot of attention in the context of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), as the detection of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Job Feldbrugge , Matti van Engelen , Rien van de Weygaert , Pratyush Pranav , Gert Vegter

We present Euler Characteristic Surfaces as a multiscale spatiotemporal topological summary of time series data encapsulating the topology of the system at different time instants and length scales. Euler Characteristic Surfaces with an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Anamika Roy , Atish J. Mitra , Tapati Dutta

Persistent homology is a popular and useful tool for analysing finite metric spaces, revealing features that can be used to distinguish sets of unlabeled points and as input into machine learning pipelines. The famous stability theorem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Philip Smith , Vitaliy Kurlin

In this article, we show that each two metric fibrations with a common base and a common fiber have isomorphic magnitude homology, and even more, the same magnitude homotopy type. That can be considered as a generalization of a fact proved…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Yasuhiko Asao , Yu Tajima , Masahiko Yoshinaga

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas