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Why is the manifold topology in a spacetime taken for granted? Why do we prefer to use Riemann open balls as basic-open sets, while there also exists a Lorentz metric? Which topology is a best candidate for a spacetime; a topology…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Kyriakos Papadopoulos , Fabio Scardigli

The motivation for using qualitative shape descriptions is as follows: qualitative shape descriptions can implicitly act as a schema for measuring the similarity of shapes, which has the potential to be cognitively adequate. Then, shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Christopher H. Dorr , Reinhard Moratz

The goal of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead, our novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

We construct a topology on a given algebraically closed field with a distinguished subfield which is also algebraically closed. This topology is finer than Zariski topology and it captures the sets definable in the pair of algebraically…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Ayhan Günaydın

Topological descriptors, such as the Euler characteristic function and the persistence diagram, have grown increasingly popular for representing complex data. Recent work showed that a carefully chosen set of these descriptors encodes all…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Brittany Terese Fasy , Maksym Makarchuk , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman

We study the notion of geometric structures for toposes: This generalizes the notion of (X,G) manifolds. We give some applications to algebraic geometry

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A Tsemo

Topological data analysis is an emerging field that applies the study of topological invariants to data. Perhaps the simplest of these invariants is the number of connected components or clusters. In this work, we explore a topological…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ian Stewart Joyce , Grant Erdmann , Kirk P. Gardner , Ryan Kramer , Kyle Siegrist

The study of spatial symmetries was accomplished during the last century, and had greatly improved our understanding of the properties of solids. Nowadays, the symmetry data of any crystal can be readily extracted from standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Zhida Song , Tiantian Zhang , Zhong Fang , Chen Fang

We introduce the notion of an ordered face structure. The ordered face structures to many-to-one computads are like positive face structures to positive-to-one computads. This allow us to give an explicit combinatorial description of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Marek Zawadowski

In this paper we will study the representations of isomorphisms between bases of topological spaces. It turns out that the perfect setting for this study is that of regular open subsets of complete metric spaces, but we have achieved some…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Javier Cabello Sánchez

In this paper, we extend the formal definition of topological surgery by introducing new notions in order to model natural phenomena exhibiting it. On the one hand, the common features of the presented natural processes are captured by our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Stathis Antoniou , Sofia Lambropoulou

The understanding of the immense and intricate topological structure of the World Wide Web (WWW) is a major scientific and technological challenge. This has been tackled recently by characterizing the properties of its representative graphs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-01-23 M. Angeles Serrano , Ana Maguitman , Marian Boguna , Santo Fortunato , Alessandro Vespignani

The program of understanding Shape Theory layer by layer topologically and geometrically -- proposed in Part I -- is now addressed for 4 points in 1-$d$. Topological shape space graphs are far more complex here, whereas metric shape spaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-15 Edward Anderson

Despite its increasing role in communication, the world wide web remains the least controlled medium: any individual or institution can create websites with unrestricted number of documents and links. While great efforts are made to map and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Hawoong Jeong , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The application of network techniques to the analysis of neural data has greatly improved our ability to quantify and describe these rich interacting systems. Among many important contributions, networks have proven useful in identifying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-14 Ann E. Sizemore , Jennifer Phillips-Cremins , Robert Ghrist , Danielle S. Bassett

Learning to encode differences in the geometry and (topological) structure of the shapes of ordinary objects is key to generating semantically plausible variations of a given shape, transferring edits from one shape to another, and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kaichun Mo , Paul Guerrero , Li Yi , Hao Su , Peter Wonka , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

Topological transforms have been very useful in statistical analysis of shapes or surfaces without restrictions that the shapes are diffeomorphic and requiring the estimation of correspondence maps. In this paper we introduce two…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Henry Kirveslahti , Sayan Mukherjee

Sampling from distributions of implicitly defined shapes enables analysis of various energy functionals used for image segmentation. Recent work describes a computationally efficient Metropolis-Hastings method for accomplishing this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Jason Chang , John W. Fisher

The topology of the large-scale structure of the universe contains valuable information on the underlying cosmological parameters. While persistent homology can extract this topological information, the optimal method for parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jacky H. T. Yip , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu

This is a survey on coarse geometry with an emphasis on coarse homology theories.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Ulrich Bunke