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We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

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We construct minimal laminations by hyperbolic surfaces whose generic leaf is a disk and contain any prescribed family of surfaces and with a precise control of the topologies of the surfaces that appear. The laminations are constructed via…

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Following the classical results of Stong, we introduce a cohomological analogue of a core of a finite sheaved topological space and propose an algorithm for simplification in this category. In particular we generalize the notion of beat…

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