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This paper establishes a comprehensive concentration theory for truncated signatures of Gaussian rough paths. The signature of a path, defined as the collection of all iterated integrals, provides a complete description of its geometric…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Atef Lechiheb

Contrary to previous approaches bringing together algebraic geometry and signatures of paths, we introduce a Zariski topology on the space of paths itself, and study path varieties consisting of all paths whose iterated-integrals signature…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Rosa Preiß

Over the past decade, the importance of the 1D signature which can be seen as a functional defined along a path, has been pivotal in both path-wise stochastic calculus and the analysis of time series data. By considering an image as a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Joscha Diehl , Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard , Fabian Harang , Samy Tindel

We introduce a new feature map for barcodes that arise in persistent homology computation. The main idea is to first realize each barcode as a path in a convenient vector space, and to then compute its path signature which takes values in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-28 Ilya Chevyrev , Vidit Nanda , Harald Oberhauser

The path signature, having enjoyed recent success in the machine learning community, is a theoretically-driven method for engineering features from irregular paths. On the other hand, graph neural networks (GNN), neural architectures for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Hans Riess , Manolis Veveakis , Michael M. Zavlanos

An ant-like observer confined to a two-dimensional surface traversed by stripes would wonder whether this striped landscape could be devised in such a way as to appear to be the same wherever they go. Differently stated, this is the problem…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-12 Andrea Pedrini , Epifanio G. Virga

While standard persistent homology has been successful in extracting information from metric datasets, its applicability to more general data, e.g. directed networks, is hindered by its natural insensitivity to asymmetry. We study a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Samir Chowdhury , Facundo Mémoli

The theory of linear transports along paths in vector bundles, generalizing the parallel transports generated by linear connections, is developed. The normal frames for them are defined as ones in which their matrices are the identity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bozhidar Z. Iliev

In stochastic analysis, a standard method to study a path is to work with its signature. This is a sequence of tensors of different order that encode information of the path in a compact form. When the path varies, such signatures…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Laura Colmenarejo , Francesco Galuppi , Mateusz Michałek

In real-world systems, the relationships and connections between components are highly complex. Real systems are often described as networks, where nodes represent objects in the system and edges represent relationships or connections…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Shen Zhang

We introduce a proper notion of 2-dimensional signature for images. This object is inspired by the so-called rough paths theory, and it captures many essential features of a 2-dimensional object such as an image. It thus serves as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Sheng Zhang , Guang Lin , Samy Tindel

The signature transform, defined by the formal tensor series of global iterated path integrals, is a homomorphism between the path space and the tensor algebra that has been studied in geometry, control theory, number theory as well as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Horatio Boedihardjo , Xi Geng

Rough sheets are two-parameter analogs of rough paths. In this work the theory of integration over functions of two parameters is extended to cover the case of irregular functions by developing an appropriate notion of rough sheet. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-01 K. Chouk , M. Gubinelli

The motivation for this paper stems \cite{CR} from the need to construct explicit isomorphisms of (possibly nontrivial) principal $G$-bundles on the space of loops or, more generally, of paths in some manifold $M$, over which I consider a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. A. Rossi

Despite the obvious similarities between the metrics used in topological data analysis and those of optimal transport, an optimal-transport based formalism to study persistence diagrams and similar topological descriptors has yet to come.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Vincent Divol , Théo Lacombe

We introduce a notion of rough paths on embedded submanifolds and demonstrate that this class of rough paths is natural. On the way we develop a notion of rough integration and an efficient and intrinsic theory of rough differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Thomas Cass , Bruce K. Driver , Christian Litterer

Local properties of the fundamental group of a path-connected topological space can pose obstructions to the applicability of covering space theory. A generalized covering map is a generalization of the classical notion of covering map…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Jeremy Brazas , Hanspeter Fischer

The signature of a $p$-weakly geometric rough path summarises a path up to a generalised notion of reparameterisation. The quotient space of equivalence classes on which the signature is constant yields unparameterised path space. The study…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Thomas Cass , William F. Turner

We introduce a nonabelian surface holonomy that is constructed from a one-form gauge potential that takes values in a loop algebra of the $U(N)$ gauge group. The surface holonomy parallel transports a nonabelian string. Although it is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Dongsu Bak , Andreas Gustavsson

We study signature tensors of paths from a geometric viewpoint. The signatures of a given class of paths parametrize an algebraic variety inside the space of tensors, and these signature varieties provide both new tools to investigate paths…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Francesco Galuppi