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Merge trees are a topological descriptor of a filtered space that enriches the degree zero barcode with its merge structure. The space of merge trees comes equipped with an interleaving distance $d_I$, which prompts a naive question: is the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-04 David Beers , Gillian Grindstaff

Within the field of phylogenetics there is great interest in distance measures to quantify the dissimilarity of two trees. Here, based on an idea of Bruen and Bryant, we propose and analyze a new distance measure: the Maximum Parsimony (MP)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-02-10 Mareike Fischer , Steven Kelk

We study the complexity of reasoning in abstracts argumentation frameworks close to graph classes that allow for efficient reasoning methods, i.e.\ to one of the classes of acyclic, noeven, biparite and symmetric AFs. In this work we show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Wolfgang Dvořák

Interleaving distances provide a fundamental tool for comparing persistence modules and have been widely used in topological data analysis. Their definitions are typically based on translation structures (shift operations) on the indexing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Toshitaka Aoki

In this paper we define a novel edit distance for merge trees, which we argue to be suitable for a good range of applications. Relying also on some technical results contained in other works, we investigate its stability properties, which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Matteo Pegoraro

We develop a stability theory for minimal projective resolutions of $\mathbf{P}$-modules, where $\mathbf{P}$ is a finite metric poset. We use the G\"ulen-McCleary distance on $\mathbf{P}$-modules together with a new complex matching…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hideto Asashiba , Amit K. Patel

In phylogenetics, distances are often used to measure the incongruence between a pair of phylogenetic trees that are reconstructed by different methods or using different regions of genome. Motivated by the maximum parsimony principle in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-08 Steven Kelk , Mareike Fischer , Vincent Moulton , Taoyang Wu

We establish maximal trees and graphs for the difference of average distance and proximity proving thus the corresponding conjecture posed in [4]. We also establish maximal trees for the difference of average eccentricity and remoteness and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Jelena Sedlar

One of the main challenges in Computational Biology is to find the evolutionary distance between two organisms. In the field of comparative genomics, one way to estimate such distance is to find a minimum cost sequence of rearrangements…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino , Andre Rodrigues Oliveira , Ulisses Dias , Zanoni Dias

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

The matching distance is a pseudometric on multi-parameter persistence modules, defined in terms of the weighted bottleneck distance on the restriction of the modules to affine lines. It is known that this distance is stable in a reasonable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Michael Kerber , Michael Lesnick , Steve Oudot

One of the main reasons for topological persistence being useful in data analysis is that it is backed up by a stability (isometry) property: persistence diagrams of $1$-parameter persistence modules are stable in the sense that the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Tamal K. Dey , Cheng Xin

We introduce new distance measures for comparing straight-line embedded graphs based on the Fr\'echet distance and the weak Fr\'echet distance. These graph distances are defined using continuous mappings and thus take the combinatorial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Hugo A. Akitaya , Maike Buchin , Bernhard Kilgus , Stef Sijben , Carola Wenk

We provide a simple method and relevant theoretical analysis for efficiently estimating higher-order lp distances. While the analysis mainly focuses on l4, our methodology extends naturally to p = 6,8,10..., (i.e., when p is even).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Ping Li , Michael W. Mahoney , Yiyuan She

In this article, we propose tree edit distance with variables, which is an extension of the tree edit distance to handle trees with variables and has a potential application to measuring the similarity between mathematical formulas,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tatsuya Akutsu , Tomoya Mori , Naotoshi Nakamura , Satoshi Kozawa , Yuhei Ueno , Thomas N. Sato

In multi-parameter persistence, the matching distance is defined as the supremum of weighted bottleneck distances on the barcodes given by the restriction of persistence modules to lines with a positive slope. In the case of finitely…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler , Elizabeth R. Stephenson

Kondo et al. (DS 2014) proposed methods for computing distances between unordered rooted trees by transforming an instance of the distance computing problem into an instance of the integer programming problem. They showed that the tree edit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Eunpyeong Hong , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Akihiro Yamamoto

The pruning distance recently introduced by Bjerkevik compares persistence modules using approximate decompositions called prunings. Bjerkevik conjectures that this distance is Lipschitz equivalent to the classical interleaving distance on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Roy Nicolas Nehme

Many popular algorithms for searching the space of leaf-labelled trees are based on tree rearrangement operations. Under any such operation, the problem is reduced to searching a graph where vertices are trees and (undirected) edges are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Lena Collienne , Alex Gavryushkin

The stability of persistence diagrams is among the most important results in applied and computational topology. Most results in the literature phrase stability in terms of the bottleneck distance between diagrams and the $\infty$-norm of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Primoz Skraba , Katharine Turner