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We consider Laplacians on periodic metric graphs with unit-length edges. The spectrum of these operators consists of an absolutely continuous part (which is a union of an infinite number of non-degenerated spectral bands) plus an infinite…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Evgeny Korotyaev , Natalia Saburova

We present a thorough study of the theoretical properties and devise efficient algorithms for the \emph{persistent Laplacian}, an extension of the standard combinatorial Laplacian to the setting of pairs (or, in more generality, sequences)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Facundo Mémoli , Zhengchao Wan , Yusu Wang

Algebraic topology has been widely applied to point cloud data to capture geometric shapes and topological structures. However, its application to genome sequence analysis remains rare. In this work, we propose topological sequence analysis…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Jian Liu , Li Shen , Dong Chen , Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology (PH) is one of the most popular tools in topological data analysis (TDA), while graph theory has had a significant impact on data science. Our earlier work introduced the persistent spectral graph (PSG) theory as a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Rui Wang , Rundong Zhao , Emily Ribando-Gros , Jiahui Chen , Yiying Tong , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly developing collection of methods for studying the shape of point cloud and other data types. One popular approach, designed to be robust to noise and outliers, is to first use a smoothing…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-27 Chul Moon , Noah Giansiracusa , Nicole A. Lazar

This is a tutorial and survey paper for nonlinear dimensionality and feature extraction methods which are based on the Laplacian of graph of data. We first introduce adjacency matrix, definition of Laplacian matrix, and the interpretation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as an effective approach in data science, with its key technique, persistent homology, rooted in algebraic topology. Although alternative approaches based on differential topology, geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Faisal Suwayyid , Guo-Wei Wei

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

In this paper we generalise the results on eigenvalues and eigenvectors of unnormalized (combinatorial) Laplacian of two-dimensional grid presented by Edwards:2013 first to a grid graph of any dimension, and second also to other types of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

As data grows in size and complexity, finding frameworks which aid in interpretation and analysis has become critical. This is particularly true when data comes from complex systems where extensive structure is available, but must be drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Henry Kvinge , Brett Jefferson , Cliff Joslyn , Emilie Purvine

We consider Laplacians on periodic equilateral metric graphs. The spectrum of the Laplacian consists of an absolutely continuous part (which is a union of an infinite number of non-degenerated spectral bands) plus an infinite number of flat…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Evgeny Korotyaev , Natalia Saburova

The persistence theory has been employed by several authors in order to study persistence properties of dynamical systems generated by ordinary differential equations or maps across diverse disciplines. In this note, the author discusses a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-09 N. Pant

Geometric deep learning has sparked a rising interest in computer graphics to perform shape understanding tasks, such as shape classification and semantic segmentation. When the input is a polygonal surface, one has to suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Qiujie Dong , Zixiong Wang , Manyi Li , Junjie Gao , Shuangmin Chen , Zhenyu Shu , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

This paper establishes the consistency of spectral approaches to data clustering. We consider clustering of point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. A graph representing the point cloud is obtained by assigning weights to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Nicolás García Trillos , Dejan Slepčev

Persistent homology is a branch of computational algebraic topology that studies shapes and extracts features over multiple scales. In this paper, we present an unsupervised approach that uses persistent homology to study divergent behavior…

In topological data analysis, we want to discern topological and geometric structure of data, and to understand whether or not certain features of data are significant as opposed to simply random noise. While progress has been made on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 So Mang Han , Taylor Okonek , Nikesh Yadav , Xiaojun Zheng

We analyze the spectral clustering procedure for identifying coarse structure in a data set $x_1, \dots, x_n$, and in particular study the geometry of graph Laplacian embeddings which form the basis for spectral clustering algorithms. More…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Franca Hoffmann , Bamdad Hosseini

This paper is a survey of persistent homology, primarily as it is used in topological data analysis. It includes the theory of persistence modules, as well as stability theorems for persistence barcodes, generalized persistence,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Gunnar Carlsson

This document develops general concepts useful for extracting knowledge embedded in large graphs or datasets that have pair-wise relationships, such as cause-effect-type relations. Almost no underlying assumptions are made, other than that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Linas Vepstas

Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Bernardo Ameneyro , Vasileios Maroulas , George Siopsis