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Graphs model real-world circumstances in many applications where they may constantly change to capture the dynamic behavior of the phenomena. Topological persistence which provides a set of birth and death pairs for the topological features…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Tamal K. Dey , Tao Hou

The vertex connectivity of a graph $G$ is the size of the smallest set of vertices $S$ such that $G \setminus S$ is disconnected. For the class of planar graphs, the problem of vertex connectivity is well-studied, both from structural and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Therese Biedl , Karthik Murali

We consider constrained variants of graph homomorphisms such as embeddings, monomorphisms, full homomorphisms, surjective homomorpshims, and locally constrained homomorphisms. We also introduce a new variation on this theme which derives…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Yangjing Long

We introduce "logically contractive mappings" nonexpansive self-maps that contract along a subsequence of iterates and prove a fixed-point theorem that extends Banach's principle. We obtain event-indexed convergence rates and, under bounded…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Faruk Alpay , Taylan Alpay

We prove the $1$-dimensional flat chain conjecture in any complete and quasiconvex metric space, namely that metric $1$-currents can be approximated in mass by normal $1$-currents. The proof relies on a new Banach space isomorphism theorem,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 David Bate , Emanuele Caputo , Jakub Takáč , Phoebe Valentine , Pietro Wald

In this paper, we study the construction and transformation of two-dimensional persistent graphs. Persistence is a generalization to directed graphs of the undirected notion of rigidity. In the context of moving autonomous agent formations,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Julien M. Hendrickx , Baris Fidan , Changbin Yu , Brian D. O. Anderson , Vincent D. Blondel

The problems of continuation of a partially defined metric and a partially defined ultrametric were considered in (O. Dovgoshey, O. Martio and M. Vuorinen, Metrization of weighted graphs, Ann. Comb., 17:455--476, 2013) and (A. A. Dovgoshey…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Evgeniy Petrov

We find conditions under which Almgren-Pitts min-max for the prescribed geodesic curvature functional in a closed oriented Riemannian surface produces a closed embedded curve of constant curvature. In particular, we find a closed embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Lorenzo Sarnataro , Douglas Stryker

Graphs are fundamental tools for modeling pairwise interactions in complex systems. However, many real-world systems involve multi-way interactions that cannot be fully captured by standard graphs. Hypergraphs, which generalize graphs by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Tom Needham , Ethan Semrad

Contraction analysis uses a local criterion to prove the long-term behaviour of a dynamical system. A contraction metric is a Riemannian metric with respect to which the distance between adjacent solutions contracts. If adjacent solutions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Peter Giesl

Through the establishment of several extension theorems, we provide explicit expressions for all contractive projections and 1-complemented subspaces in the Hardy space $H^p(\mathbb{T})$ for $1\leq p<\infty$, $p\neq 2$. Our characterization…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Xiangdi Fu , Kunyu Guo , Dilong Li

The contribution of this work is twofold. The first part deals with a Hilbert-space version of McCann's celebrated result on the existence and uniqueness of monotone measure-preserving maps: given two probability measures $\rm P$ and $\rm…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Alberto González-Sanz , Marc Hallin , Bodhisattva Sen

Contraction rates of time-varying maps induced by dynamical systems illuminate a wide range of asymptotic properties with applications in stability analysis and control theory. In finite-dimensional smoothly varying inner-product spaces…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Anand Srinivasan , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We consider a new type of mappings in metric spaces which can be characterized as mappings contracting perimeters of triangles. It is shown that such mappings are continuous. The fixed-point theorem for such mappings is proved and the…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Evgeniy Petrov

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite, connected graph. We consider a greedy selection of vertices: given a list of vertices $x_1, \dots, x_k$, take $x_{k+1}$ to be any vertex maximizing the sum of distances to the existing vertices and iterate: we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Stefan Steinerberger

Let $X(n),$ for $n\in\mathbb{N},$ be the set of all subsets of a metric space $(X,d)$ of cardinality at most $n.$ The set $X(n)$ equipped with the Hausdorff metric is called a finite subset space. In this paper we are concerned with the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Miroslav Bacak , Leonid V. Kovalev

Persistent homology is a fundamental tool in Topological Data Analysis. The associated algebraic structure is the persistence module, a sequence of vector spaces connected by linear maps. Persistence modules admit a complete and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 R. Gonzalez-Diaz , M. Soriano-Trigueros , A. Torras-Casas

Contraction theory for dynamical systems on Euclidean spaces is well-established. For contractive (resp. semi-contractive) systems, the distance (resp. semi-distance) between any two trajectories decreases exponentially fast. For partially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

Time-delay embedding is a fundamental technique in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for reconstructing the phase space dynamics of time-series data. Persistent homology effectively identifies global topological features, such as loops…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Donghyun Park , Junhyun An , Taehyoung Kim , Jisu Kim

We prove a robust version of a graph embedding theorem of Sauer and Spencer. To state this sparser analogue, we define $G(p)$ to be a random subgraph of $G$ obtained by retaining each edge of $G$ independently with probability $p \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Mihir Neve