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In this paper we investigate the descriptional complexity of knot theoretic problems and show upper bounds for planarity problem of signed and unsigned knot diagrams represented by Gauss words. Since a topological equivalence of knots can…

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The topology of many real complex networks has been conjectured to be embedded in hidden metric spaces, where distances between nodes encode their likelihood of being connected. Besides of providing a natural geometrical interpretation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-23 Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá

Predicting the runtime complexity of a programming code is an arduous task. In fact, even for humans, it requires a subtle analysis and comprehensive knowledge of algorithms to predict time complexity with high fidelity, given any code. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jagriti Sikka , Kushal Satya , Yaman Kumar , Shagun Uppal , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Roger Zimmermann

The aim of applied topology is to use and develop topological methods for applied mathematics, science and engineering. One of the main tools is persistent homology, an adaptation of classical homology, which assigns a barcode, i.e. a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek

Trellises are crucial graphical representations of codes. While conventional trellises are well understood, the general theory of (tail-biting) trellises is still under development. Iterative decoding concretely motivates such theory. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-27 David Conti , Nigel Boston

We define all-to-all encode, a collective communication operation serving as a primitive in decentralized computation and storage systems. Consider a scenario where every processor initially has a data packet and requires a linear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Canran Wang , Netanel Raviv

Protein structure prediction remains a challenge in the field of computational biology. Traditional protein structure prediction approaches include template-based modelling (say, homology modelling, and threading), and ab initio. A…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-14 Jianwei Zhu , Haicang Zhang , Chao Wang , Bin Ling , Wei-Mou Zheng , Dongbo Bu

Knotted molecules occur naturally and are designed by scientists to gain special biological and material properties. Understanding and utilizing knotting require efficient methods to recognize and generate knotted structures, which are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Zhiyu Zhang , Yongjian Zhu , Liang Dai

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

The design of periodic nanostructures allows to tailor the transport of photons, phonons, and matter waves for specific applications. Recent years have seen a further expansion of this field by engineering topological properties. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Vittorio Peano , Florian Sapper , Florian Marquardt

We study the computational model of polygraphs. For that, we consider polygraphic programs, a subclass of these objects, as a formal description of first-order functional programs. We explain their semantics and prove that they form a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Guillaume Bonfante , Yves Guiraud

In the last few years there has been a growing interest towards methods for statistical inference and learning based on computational geometry and, notably, tropical geometry, that is, the study of algebraic varieties over the min-plus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Davide Barbarossa , Paolo Pistone

We classify graphs and, more generally, finite relational structures that are identified by C2, that is, two-variable first-order logic with counting. Using this classification, we show that it can be decided in almost linear time whether a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Sandra Kiefer , Pascal Schweitzer , Erkal Selman

Knot theory provides a powerful tool for the understanding of topological matters in biology, chemistry, and physics. Here knot theory is introduced to describe topological phases in the quantum spin system. Exactly solvable models with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-24 X. M. Yang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Classification is an important goal in many branches of mathematics. The idea is to describe the members of some class of mathematical objects, up to isomorphism or other important equivalence in terms of relatively simple invariants. Where…

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In this paper, we rethink how a DNN encodes visual concepts of different complexities from a new perspective, i.e. the game-theoretic multi-order interactions between pixels in an image. Beyond the categorical taxonomy of objects and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xu Cheng , Chuntung Chu , Yi Zheng , Jie Ren , Quanshi Zhang

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

Mechanical metamaterials have continued to offer unprecedented tunability in mechanical properties, but most designs to date have prioritized attaining high stiffness and strength while sacrificing deformability. The emergence of woven…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Molly Carton , James Utama Surjadi , Bastien F. G. Aymon , Carlos M. Portela

Laddering is the propagation of a topological defect in an everyday-life material: weft knitted fabrics, following a broken thread or a dropped stitch. What is a minor frustration when damaging a pair of tights is a more serious issue for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-23 Antoine Faulconnier , Laura Michel , Mokhtar Adda-Bedia , Jérôme Crassous , Audrey Steinberger

Knitting, a cornerstone of textile manufacturing, is uniquely challenging to automate, particularly in terms of converting fabric designs into precise, machine-readable instructions. This research bridges the gap between textile production…

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