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We study an elementary problem of the topological robotics: collective motion of a set of $n$ distinct particles which one has to move from an initial configuration to a final configuration, with the requirement that no collisions occur in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber , Sergey Yuzvinsky

We start by introducing the basics of configurations of points and lines, and then move into discussing symmetry groups of these configurations. Specifically, we explore how we might classify the symmetries of $(9_3)$ and $(10_3)$ geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Luke Boyer , Nick Payne

Algebraic operations are understood as topologiztion of algebra. They become an example of simplest convergence space. In our article the convergence is a arbitrary multivalued appointment. The continuity of some mapping between two…

General Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Gintaras Valiukevicius

In the era of foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs), Euclidean space has been the de facto geometric setting for machine learning architectures. However, recent literature has demonstrated that this choice comes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Neil He , Jiahong Liu , Buze Zhang , Ngoc Bui , Ali Maatouk , Menglin Yang , Irwin King , Melanie Weber , Rex Ying

Configuration space integrals are powerful tools for studying the homotopy type of the space of long embeddings in terms of a combinatorial object called a graph complex. It is unknown whether these integrals give a cochain map due to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Leo Yoshioka

This note initiates an investigation of packing links into a region of Euclidean space to achieve a maximal density subject to geometric constraints. The upper bounds obtained apply only to the class of homotopically essential links and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Michael H. Freedman

A long-term research proposal on the algebraic structure, the representations and the possible applications of paraparticle algebras is structured in three modules: The first part stems from an attempt to classify the inequivalent gradings…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 Konstantinos Kanakoglou

Human environments contain numerous objects configured in a variety of arrangements. Our goal is to enable robots to repose previously unseen objects according to learned semantic relationships in novel environments. We break this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Chris Paxton , Chris Xie , Tucker Hermans , Dieter Fox

This book is expository and is in Russian. It is shown how in the course of solution of interesting geometric problems (close to applications) naturally appear main notions of algebraic topology (homology groups, obstructions and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-18 A. Skopenkov

This book gives a thorough introduction to topological data analysis (TDA), the application of algebraic topology to data science. Algebraic topology is traditionally a very specialized field of math, and most mathematicians have never been…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Michael S. Postol

The book is designed for a semester-long course in Foundations of Geometry and meant to be rigorous, conservative, elementary and minimalist. List of topics: Euclidean geometry: The Axioms / Half-planes / Congruent triangles / Perpendicular…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Anton Petrunin

It is important to classify covering subgroups of the fundamental group of a topological space using their topological properties in the topologized fundamental group. In this paper, we introduce and study some topologies on the fundamental…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-04 M. Ab dullahi Rashid , N. Jamali , B. Mashayekhy , S. Z. Pashaei , H. Torabi

These lecture notes from a first course in algebraic topology use the fundamental group and orbit categories to classify covering spaces.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-06-29 Jesper M. Møller

The idea that possible configurations of a physical system can be represented as points in a multidimensional configuration space ${\cal C}$ is explored. The notion of spacetime, without ${\cal C}$, does not exist in this theory. Spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-12 Matej Pavsic

We introduce the notion of a "graded topological space": a topological space endowed with a sheaf of abelian groups which we think of as a sheaf of gradings. Any object living on a graded topological space will be graded by this sheaf of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Clemens Koppensteiner

The chapter provides an introduction to the basic concepts of Algebraic Topology with an emphasis on motivation from applications in the physical sciences. It finishes with a brief review of computational work in algebraic topology,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Vanessa Robins

We produce combinatorial models for configuration space in a simplicial complex, and for configurations near a single point ("local configuration space.") The model for local configuration space is built out of the poset of poset structures…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-16 John D. Wiltshire-Gordon

Configuration is a successful application area of Artificial Intelligence. In the majority of the cases, configuration systems focus on configuring one solution (configuration) that satisfies the preferences of a single user or a group of…

Metric spaces are a fundamental component of mathematics and have a paramount importance as a framework for measuring distance. They can be found in many different branches of mathematics, such as analysis and topology. This paper offers an…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Ismail Gemaledin , Iusuf Gemaledin

Finitely many hypersurfaces are removed from unordered configuration spaces of $n$ points in $\mathbb{C}$ to obtain a fibration over unordered configuration spaces of $n-1$ complex points. Fundamental groups of these restricted…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Barbu Rudolf Berceanu