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This paper focuses on the problem of topological equivalence of functions with isolated critical points on the boundary of a compact surface $M$ which are also isolated critical points of their restrictions to the boundary. This class of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Bohdana I. Hladysh , Aleksandr O. Prishlyak

By analogy with the invariant Q-category defined by Scheerer, Stanley and Tanr\'e, we introduce the notions of Q-sectional category and Q-topological complexity. We establish several properties of these invariants. We also obtain a formula…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Lucía Fernández Suárez , Lucile Vandembroucq

Given a space $X$, the topological complexity of $X$, denoted by $TC(X)$, can be viewed as the minimum number of "continuous rules" needed to describe how to move between any two points in $X$. Given subspaces $Y_1$ and $Y_2$ of $X$, there…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Bryan Boehnke , Steven Scheirer , Shuhang Xue

We develop the theory of probabilistic variants of the one-category and diagonal topological complexity, which bound the classical LS-category and topological complexity from below. Unlike any other classical or probabilistic invariants,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Ekansh Jauhari , John Oprea

Condensed mathematics, developed by Clausen and Scholze over the last few years, proposes a generalization of topology with better categorical properties. It replaces the concept of a topological space by that of a condensed set, which can…

This article belongs to a subject, Directed Algebraic Topology, whose general aim is including non-reversible processes in the range of topology and algebraic topology. Here, as a further step, we also want to cover "critical processes",…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Marco Grandis

The topological complexity of a path-connected space $X,$ denoted $TC(X),$ can be thought of as the minimum number of continuous rules needed to describe how to move from one point in $X$ to another. The space $X$ is often interpreted as a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Steven Scheirer

Recently, the intriguing interplay between topology and quantum criticality has been unveiled in one-dimensional topological chains with extended nearest-neighbor couplings. In these systems, topologically distinct critical phases emerge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-25 Ranjith R Kumar , Pasquale Marra

This is a collection of results on the topology of toric symplectic manifolds. Using an idea of Borisov, we show that a closed symplectic manifold supports at most a finite number of toric structures. Further, the product of two projective…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Dusa McDuff

The problem of computing spectra of operators is arguably one of the most investigated areas of computational mathematics. However, the problem of computing spectra of general bounded infinite matrices has only recently been solved. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Matthew J. Colbrook , Anders C. Hansen

The well-known theorem of Eilenberg and Ganea expresses the Lusternik - Schnirelmann category of an aspherical space as the cohomological dimension of its fundamental group. In this paper we study a similar problem of determining…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Farber , Stephan Mescher

We first study the higher version of the relative topological complexity by using the homotopic distance. We also introduced the generalized version of the relative topological complexity of a topological pair on both the Schwarz genus and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Melih İs , İsmet Karaca

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a linear functional subject to uncertain linear and bilinear matrix inequalities, which depend in a possibly nonlinear way on a vector of uncertain parameters. Motivated by recent results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Fabrizio Dabbene , Roberto Tempo , Venkatakrishnan Venkataramanan , Qing-Guo Wang

For a pair of spaces $X$ and $Y$ such that $Y \subseteq X$, we define the relative topological complexity of the pair $(X,Y)$ as a new variant of relative topological complexity. Intuitively, this corresponds to counting the smallest number…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Robert Short

We compute the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and the topological complexity of no $k$-equal manifolds $M^{(k)}_d(n)$ for certain values of $d$, $k$ and $n$. This includes instances where $M^{(k)}_d(n)$ is known to be rationally…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Jesús González , José Luis León-Medina

We study the asymptotic nature of geometric structures formed from a point cloud of observations of (generally heavy tailed) distributions in a Euclidean space of dimension greater than one. A typical example is given by the Betti numbers…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Takashi Owada , Robert J. Adler

Computational topology is a vibrant contemporary subfield and this article integrates knot theory and mathematical visualization. Previous work on computer graphics developed a sequence of smooth knots that were shown to converge point wise…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-29 J. Li , T. J. Peters , K. E. Jordan , P. Zaffetti

In topological insulators and topological superconductors, the discrete jump of the topological invariant upon tuning a certain system parameter defines a topological phase transition. A unified framework is employed to address the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wei Chen , Andreas P. Schnyder

We present upper and lower bounds for symmetrized topological complexity $TC^\Sigma(X)$ in the sense of Basabe-Gonz\'alez-Rudyak-Tamaki. The upper bound comes from equivariant obstruction theory, and the lower bounds from the cohomology of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Mark Grant

The problem of establishing out-of-sample bounds for the values of an unkonwn ground-truth function is considered. Kernels and their associated Hilbert spaces are the main formalism employed herein along with an observational model where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Paul Scharnhorst , Emilio T. Maddalena , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones