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Discrete Morse theory emerged as an essential tool for computational geometry and topology. Its core structures are discrete gradient fields, defined as acyclic matchings on a complex $C$, from which topological and geometrical informations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Joao Paixao , Joao Lagoas , Thomas Lewiner , Tiago Novello

Topologically constrained genome-like polymers often double-fold into tree-like configurations, which can be modelled on the level of folded (ring) polymers or on the level of the underlying random trees. For both descriptions, we have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Pieter H. W. van der Hoek , Angelo Rosa , Elham Ghobadpour , Ralf Everaers

In this paper, we develop the notion of a Morse sequence, which provides an alternative approach to discrete Morse theory, and which is both simple and effective. A Morse sequence on a finite simplicial complex is a sequence composed solely…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Gilles Bertrand

We study the growth of a time-ordered rooted tree by probabilistic attachment of new vertices to leaves. We construct a likelihood function of the leaves based on the connectivity of the tree. We take such connectivity to be induced by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Nomvelo Sibisi

Merge trees are a type of topological descriptors that record the connectivity among the sublevel sets of scalar fields. They are among the most widely used topological tools in visualization. In this paper, we are interested in sketching a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mingzhe Li , Sourabh Palande , Lin Yan , Bei Wang

An induced forest of a graph G is an acyclic induced subgraph of G. The present paper is devoted to the analysis of a simple randomised algorithm that grows an induced forest in a regular graph. The expected size of the forest it outputs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-21 Carlos Hoppen , Nicholas Wormald

We establish an inequality which involves a non-negative function defined on the vertices of a finite $m$-ary regular rooted tree. The inequality may be thought of as relating an interaction energy defined on the free vertices of the tree…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Kenneth J Falconer

We investigate the interrelations between labeled trees and ultrametric spaces generated by these trees. The labeled trees, which generate complete ultrametrics, totally bounded ultrametrics, and discrete ones, are characterized up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Oleksiy Dovgoshey , Mehmet Küçükaslan

We present an alternative application of discrete Morse theory for two-particle graph configuration spaces. In contrast to previous constructions, which are based on discrete Morse vector fields, our approach is through Morse functions,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Adam Sawicki

There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sawyer Jack Robertson

Merge trees, a type of topological descriptor, serve to identify and summarize the topological characteristics associated with scalar fields. They present a great potential for the analysis and visualization of time-varying data. First,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Lin Yan , Talha Bin Masood , Farhan Rasheed , Ingrid Hotz , Bei Wang

We introduce the contour process to describe the geometrical properties of merger trees. The contour process produces a one-dimensional object, the contour walk, which is a translation of the merger tree. We portray the contour walk through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jaime E. Forero-Romero

Tree-ordered weakly sparse models have recently emerged as a robust framework for representing structures in an ``almost sparse'' way, while allowing the structure to be reconstructed through a simple first-order interpretation. A prominent…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Hector Buffière , Yuquan Lin , Jaroslav Nešet{ř}il , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sebastian Siebertz

In this work we define a metric structure to compare functions defined on different merge trees. The metric introduced possesses some stability properties, which we illustrate within a standard topological data analysis (TDA) framework, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matteo Pegoraro

Given two discrete Morse functions on a simplicial complex, we introduce the {\em connectedness homomorphism} between the corresponding discrete Morse complexes. This concept leads to a novel framework for studying the connectedness in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Chong Zheng

We consider the number of spanning trees in circulant graphs of $\beta n$ vertices with generators depending linearly on $n$. The matrix tree theorem gives a closed formula of $\beta n$ factors, while we derive a formula of $\beta-1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Justine Louis

This paper introduces decorated merge trees (DMTs) as a novel invariant for persistent spaces. DMTs combine both $\pi_0$ and $H_n$ information into a single data structure that distinguishes filtrations that merge trees and persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Justin Curry , Haibin Hang , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan

Given a graph, we can form a spanning forest by first sorting the edges in some order, and then only keep edges incident to a vertex which is not incident to any previous edge. The resulting forest is dependent on the ordering of the edges,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Steve Butler , Misa Hamanaka , Marie Hardt

We explore a generating function trick which allows us to keep track of infinitely many statistics using finitely many variables, by recording their individual distributions rather than their joint distributions. Building on previous work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Sergi Elizalde

The class of self-nested trees presents remarkable compression properties because of the systematic repetition of subtrees in their structure. In this paper, we provide a better combinatorial characterization of this specific family of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Romain Azaïs , Jean-Baptiste Durand , Christophe Godin