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We study geometric and topological properties of locally compact, geodesically complete spaces with an upper curvature bound. We control the size of singular subsets, discuss homotopical and measure-theoretic stratifications and regularity…

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Given a graph $G$, a geodesic packing in $G$ is a set of vertex-disjoint maximal geodesics, and the geodesic packing number of $G$, ${\gpack}(G)$, is the maximum cardinality of a geodesic packing in $G$. It is proved that the decision…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Paul Manuel , Bostjan Bresar , Sandi Klavzar

The aim of this paper is to extend the definition of geodesics to conical manifolds, defined as submanifolds of $\R^n$ with a finite number of singularities. We look for an approach suitable both for the local geodesic problem and for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Marco G. Ghimenti

In this paper, we investigate discrete topological complexity $TC(K)$ introduced for situations where the configuration space possesses a simplicial structure. %Simplicial complexes are well-known and commonly used in programming for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Ameneh Babaee , Hanieh Mirebrahimi , Soheila Fahimi

Motion planning is a difficult problem in robot control. The complexity of the problem is directly related to the dimension of the robot's configuration space. While in many theoretical calculations and practical applications the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Felix Wiebe , Shivesh Kumar , Daniel Harnack , Malte Langosz , Hendrik Wöhrle , Frank Kirchner

This paper explores topological complexity in the finite equivariant setting. We first define and study an equivariant version of Tanaka's combinatorial complexity for finite topological spaces. We explore the relationships between this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Rebecca Bell , Allison N. Eckert , Ryan M. Pesak , Avery Schweitzer

The Topological complexity a la Farber $\text{TC}(-)$ is a homotopy invariant which have interesting applications in Robotics, specifically, in the robot motion planning problem. In this work we calculate the topological complexity of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata

The thesis presents the subject of synthetic topology, especially with relation to metric spaces. A model of synthetic topology is a categorical model in which objects possess an intrinsic topology in a suitable sense, and all morphisms are…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Davorin Lešnik

The geodesic complexity of a length space $X$ quantifies the required number of case distinctions to continuously choose a shortest path connecting any given start and end point. We prove a local lower bound for the geodesic complexity of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Florian Frick , Pranav Rajbhandari

The paper surveys topological problems relevant to the motion planning problem of robotics and includes some new results and constructions. First we analyse the notion of topological complexity of configuration spaces which is responsible…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Michael Farber

We study a probabilistic variant of the r-th sequential parametrized topological complexity, which bounds this classical invariant from below and measures the difficulty in constructing permissive parametrized motion planning algorithms. On…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Navnath Daundkar , Ekansh Jauhari

Many concrete problems are formulated in terms of a finite set of points in $R^n$ which, via the ambient Euclidean metric, becomes a finite metric space. To obtain information from such a space, it is often useful to associate a graph to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Juan M. Alonso

We find an extension of the quasi-metric (to be called $g$-quasi metric) such that the induced generalized topology may fail to form a topology. We show that $g$-quasi metrizability is a $g$-topologically invariant property of generalized…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Sugata Adhya , A. Deb Ray

Based on a local approximation of the Riemannian distance on a manifold by a computationally cheap dissimilarity measure, a time discrete geodesic calculus is developed, and applications to shape space are explored. The dissimilarity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

It is known that for a variety of choices of metrics, including the standard bottleneck distance, the space of persistence diagrams admits geodesics. Typically these existence results produce geodesics that have the form of a convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Samir Chowdhury

This paper studies a specific metric on plane curves that has the property of being isometric to classical manifold (sphere, complex projective, Stiefel, Grassmann) modulo change of parametrization, each of these classical manifolds being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Peter W. Michor , David Mumford , Jayant Shah , Laurent Younes

We develop a new method for visualizing and refining the invariances of learned representations. Specifically, we test for a general form of invariance, linearization, in which the action of a transformation is confined to a low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Olivier J. Hénaff , Eero P. Simoncelli

Despite the attention that the problem of path planning for tethered robots has garnered in the past few decades, the approaches proposed to solve it typically rely on a discrete representation of the configuration space and do not exploit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gianpietro Battocletti , Dimitris Boskos , Bart De Schutter

Hyperbolic networks are supposed to be congruent with their underlying latent geometry and following geodesics in the hyperbolic space is believed equivalent to navigate through topological shortest paths (TSP). This assumption of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci , Alessandro Muscoloni

We present a new approach to equivariant version of the topological complexity, called a symmetric topological complexity. It seems that the presented approach is more adequate for the analysis of an impact of symmetry on the the motion…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Wojciech Lubawski , Wacław Marzantowicz