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Digraphs are generalizations of graphs in which each edge is assigned with a direction or two directions. In this paper, we define discrete Morse functions on digraphs, and prove that the homology of the Morse complex and the path homology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Chong Wang , Shiquan Ren

The use of proper time as a tool for causality implementation in field theory is clarified and extended to allow a manifestly covariant definition of discrete fields proper to be applied in field theory and quantum mechanics. It implies on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoelito M de Souza

Discretizing variational principles, as opposed to discretizing differential equations, leads to discrete-time analogues of mechanics, and, systematically, to geometric numerical integrators. The phase space of such variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Charles Cuell , George W. Patrick

We present a novel diffusion-based framework for synthesizing 2D vector fields from sparse, coherent inputs (i.e., streamlines) while maintaining physical plausibility. Our method employs a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nguyen K. Phan , Ricardo Morales , Sebastian D. Espriella , Guoning Chen

Inspired by the Weierstrass representation of smooth affine minimal surfaces with indefinite metric, we propose a constructive process producing a large class of discrete surfaces that we call discrete affine minimal surfaces. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Marcos Craizer , Henri Anciaux , Thomas Lewiner

Generic singularities of line fields have been studied for lines of principal curvature of embedded surfaces. In this paper we propose an approach to classify generic singularities of general line fields on 2D manifolds. The idea is to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Ugo Boscain , Ludovic Sacchelli , Mario Sigalotti

Various line fields naturally arise on surfaces in both physical and biological contexts, and generic singularities frequently appear in the form of 1-prong (thorn-like) and 3-prong (tripod-like) configurations, which can be modeled by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Tomoo Yokoyama

We construct new substantive examples of non-autonomous vector fields on 3-dimensional sphere having a simple dynamics but non-trivial topology. The construction is based on two ideas: the theory of diffeomorpisms with wild separatrix…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-10 V. Z. Grines , L. M. Lerman

Based on the classical Pl\"ucker correspondence, we present algebraic and geometric properties of discrete integrable line complexes in $CP^3$. Algebraically, these are encoded in a discrete integrable system which appears in various guises…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Alexander I. Bobenko , Wolfgang K. Schief

A rigorous formulation of Vessiot's vector field approach to the analysis of general systems of partial differential equations is provided. It is shown that this approach is equivalent to the formal theory of differential equations and that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-28 Dirk Fesser , Werner M. Seiler

We study a class of discontinuous vector fields brought to our attention by multi-legged animal locomotion. Such vector fields arise not only in biomechanics, but also in robotics, neuroscience, and electrical engineering, to name a few…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Samuel A. Burden , S. Shankar Sastry , Daniel E. Koditschek , Shai Revzen

We investigate properties of the set of discrete Morse functions on a simplicial complex as defined by Forman. It is not difficult to see that the pairings of discrete Morse functions of a finite simplicial complex again form a simplicial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Manoj K. Chari , Michael Joswig

We present the consistent approach to finding the discrete transformations in the representation spaces of the proper Poincar\'e group. To this end we use the possibility to establish a correspondence between involutory automorphisms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. L. Buchbinder , D. M. Gitman , A. L. Shelepin

We introduce a novel method for directional-field design on meshes, enabling users to specify singularities at any location on a mesh. Our method uses a piecewise power-linear representation for phase and scale, offering precise control…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiabao Brad Wang , Amir Vaxman

The space of degree d single-variable monic and centered complex polynomial vector fields can be decomposed into loci in which the vector fields have the same topological structure. We analyze the geometric structure of these loci and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Kealey Dias , Lei Tan

We propose a new class of finite element approximations to ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in smooth regime. Following variational approximations developed for fluid models in the last decade, our discretizations are built…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

Dense distributions of string-like objects in material media are considered in terms of continuum field theory. The strings are assumed to carry a quantized abelian topological charge, such as the Burgers vector of dislocations in solids or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Rogula

In the time evolution of fluids, the topologies of fluids can be changed by the creations and annihilations of singular points and by switching combinatorial structures of separatrices. In this paper, to describe the possible generic time…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Tomoo Yokoyama

Linear spinor fields are a generalization of the Dirac field that have transparent cluster decomposability properties needed for classical correspondence of relativistic quantum systems. The algebra of these fields directly incorporate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 James Lindesay

Braided vector fields on spatial subdomains homeomorphic to the cylinder play a crucial role in applications such as solar and plasma physics, relativistic astrophysics, fluid and vortex dynamics, elasticity, and bio-elasticity. Often the…

General Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Christopher B Prior , Anthony R Yeates