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How can we design neural networks that allow for stable universal approximation of maps between topologically interesting manifolds? The answer is with a coordinate projection. Neural networks based on topological data analysis (TDA) use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Michael Puthawala , Matti Lassas , Ivan Dokmanic , Pekka Pankka , Maarten de Hoop

This review is an extended version of the Seoul ICM 2014 proceedings.It is a short overview of the "topological recursion", a relation appearing in the asymptotic expansion of many integrable systems and in enumerative problems. We recall…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 B. Eynard

This thesis proposes a combinatorial generalization of a nilpotent operator on a vector space. The resulting object is highly natural, with basic connections to a variety of fields in pure mathematics, engineering, and the sciences. For the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Gregory Henselman-Petrusek

Energy-minimizing constraint maps are a natural extension of the obstacle problem within a vectorial framework. Due to inherent topological constraints, these maps manifest a diverse structure that includes singularities similar to harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Alessio Figalli , André Guerra , Sunghan Kim , Henrik Shahgholian

Given topological spaces X and Y, a fundamental problem of algebraic topology is understanding the structure of all continuous maps X -> Y . We consider a computational version, where X, Y are given as finite simplicial complexes, and the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Martin Čadek , Marek Krčál , Jiří Matoušek , Francis Sergeraert , Lukáš Vokřínek , Uli Wagner

The work that consists of two parts is devoted to the problem of enumerating unrooted $r$-regular maps on the torus up to all its symmetries. We begin with enumerating near-$r$-regular rooted maps on the torus, projective plane and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Evgeniy Krasko , Alexander Omelchenko

Random matrices are used in fields as different as the study of multi-orthogonal polynomials or the enumeration of discrete surfaces. Both of them are based on the study of a matrix integral. However, this term can be confusing since the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Nicolas Orantin

Round fold maps are smooth maps on closed manifolds which are locally represented as the product maps of Morse functions and identity maps on open disks and whose singularity is realized as concentrically embedded spheres. The author…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Naoki Kitazawa

The Topological Representation Theorem for (oriented) matroids states that every (oriented) matroid can be realized as the intersection lattice of an arrangement of codimension one homotopy spheres on a homotopy sphere. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Matthew T. Stamps

Fold maps are fundamental tools in the theory of singularities of differentiable maps and its applications to geometry. They are higher dimensional variants of Morse functions. Classes of special generic maps and round fold maps are…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Naoki Kitazawa

Stable fold maps are fundamental tools in a generalization of the theory of Morse functions on smooth manifolds and its application to studies of geometric properties of smooth manifolds. Round fold maps were introduced as stable fold maps…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Naoki Kitazawa

The 2-matrix model has been introduced to study Ising model on random surfaces. Since then, the link between matrix models and combinatorics of discrete surfaces has strongly tightened. This manuscript aims to investigate these deep links…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-09-20 N. Orantin

A clear understanding of topology of higher-dimensional objects is important in many branches of both pure and applied mathematics. In this survey we attempt to present some results of higher-dimensional topology in a way which makes clear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-06 A. Skopenkov

Using a notation of corner between edges when graph has a fixed rotation, i.e. cyclical order of edges around vertices, we define combinatorial objects - combinatorial maps as pairs of permutations, one for vertices and one for faces.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-02 Dainis Zeps

We establish a simple recurrence formula for the number $Q_g^n$ of rooted orientable maps counted by edges and genus. We also give a weighted variant for the generating polynomial $Q_g^n(x)$ where $x$ is a parameter taking the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Sean R. Carrell , Guillaume Chapuy

In this work we treat a famous topic in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems: uniformly expanding maps. We relate regularity of expanding maps and conjugacies with Lyapunov exponents, metric and topological entropies for expanding maps of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-12 F Micena

This contribution summarizes recent work of the authors that combines methods from dynamical systems theory (discrete Painlev\'e equations) and asymptotic analysis of orthogonal polynomial recurrences, to address long-standing questions in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Nicholas Ercolani , Joceline Lega , Brandon Tippings

Continual learning systems operating in fixed-dimensional spaces face a fundamental geometric barrier: the flat manifold problem. When experience is represented as a linear trajectory in Euclidean space, the geodesic distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xin Li

A map is a connected topological graph cellularly embedded in a surface and a complete map is a cellularly embedded complete graph in a surface. In this paper, all automorphisms of complete maps of order n are determined by permutations on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Linfan Mao , Yanpei Liu , Feng Tian

The present paper mainly presents, for example, explicit classifications of compact smooth manifolds having non-empty boundaries and simple structures where the dimensions are general. Studies of this type is fundamental and important. They…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Naoki Kitazawa