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The manifold hypothesis, which assumes that data lies on or close to an unknown manifold of low intrinsic dimension, is a staple of modern machine learning research. However, recent work has shown that real-world data exhibits distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck

In this article we study the higher topological complexity ${\sf TC}_r(X)$ in the case when $X$ is an aspherical space, $X=K(\pi, 1)$ and $r\ge 2$. We give a characterisation of ${\sf TC}_r(K(\pi, 1))$ in terms of classifying spaces for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Michael Farber , John Oprea

In this paper, we study the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a simplicial map between simplicial complexes, generalizing the simplicial category of a complex to that of a map. Several properties of this new invariant are shown, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Nicholas A. Scoville , Willie Swei

Recently the first author studied the bifurcation of critical points of families of functionals on a Hilbert space, which are parametrised by a compact and orientable manifold having a non-vanishing first integral cohomology group. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Alessandro Portaluri , Nils Waterstraat

We consider the two-dimensional topological Chern insulator in the presence of static disorder. Generic quantum states in this system are Anderson localized. However, topology requires the presence of a subset of critical states, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Mateo Moreno-Gonzalez , Johannes Dieplinger , Alexander Altland

The Coupled-Cluster theory is one of the most successful high precision methods used to solve the stationary Schr\"odinger equation. In this article, we address the mathematical foundation of this theory with focus on the advances made in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Andre Laestadius , Fabian M. Faulstich

This paper studies the large-scale subspace clustering (LSSC) problem with million data points. Many popular subspace clustering methods cannot directly handle the LSSC problem although they have been considered as state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jun Li , Hongfu Liu , Zhiqiang Tao , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

The topological complexity ${\sf TC}(X)$ is a homotopy invariant of a topological space $X$, motivated by robotics, and providing a measure of the navigational complexity of $X$. The topological complexity of a connected sum of real…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Daniel C. Cohen , Lucile Vandembroucq

We numerically investigate and experimentally demonstrate an in-situ topological band transition in a highly tunable mechanical system made of cylindrical granular particles. This system allows us to tune its inter-particle stiffness in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-07-19 Rajesh Chaunsali , Aman Thakkar , Eunho Kim , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jinkyu Yang

We define a (non-decreasing) sequence $\{\mathsf{dTC}_m(X)\}_{m\ge 2}$ of higher versions of distributional topological complexity ($\mathsf{dTC}$) of a space $X$ introduced by Dranishnikov and Jauhari. This sequence generalizes…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ekansh Jauhari

We study the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and topological complexity of 1-dimensional spaces. We define both invariants as lengths of suitable closed filtrations, as opposed to a more common definition based on open covers. Our main…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jeremy Brazas , Petar Pavesic

We introduce topological invariants for gapless systems and study the associated boundary phenomena. More generally, the symmetry properties of the low-energy conformal field theory (CFT) provide discrete invariants, establishing the notion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-06 Ruben Verresen , Ryan Thorngren , Nick G. Jones , Frank Pollmann

We establish a connection between tangles, a concept from structural graph theory that plays a central role in Robertson and Seymour's graph minor project, and hierarchical clustering. Tangles cannot only be defined for graphs, but in fact…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Eva Fluck

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a spherical fusion category. The goal of this article is to present the tube category of $\mathcal{C}$, denoted $\mathcal{TC}$, as giving an alternative graphical perspective on the Drinfeld centre of $\mathcal{C}$,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Leonard Hardiman

We compute all the Chern, Milnor and Pontryagin numbers for canonical toric manifolds associated with abstract simplicial complexes and the Stiefel-Whitney numbers for their real counterparts. Applications include combinatorial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Vladimir Grujić , Ivan Limonchenko

Sectional curvature bounds are of central importance in the study of Riemannian manifolds, both in smooth differential geometry and in the generalized synthetic setting of Alexandrov spaces. Riemannian metrics along with metric spaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Darius Erös , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Alessio Vardabasso

Subsequence clustering of multivariate time series is a useful tool for discovering repeated patterns in temporal data. Once these patterns have been discovered, seemingly complicated datasets can be interpreted as a temporal sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-16 David Hallac , Sagar Vare , Stephen Boyd , Jure Leskovec

Manifolds occur naturally as configuration spaces of robotic systems. They provide global descriptions of local coordinate systems that are common tools in expressing positions of robots. The purpose of this survey is threefold. Firstly, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Stephan Mescher

In this revised version (August 2025), we add a survey of \infty-categorical (co)limits and a replacement lemma for higher functoriality (Lem. 1.4.5), a framework for explicit models of punctured tubular neighborhoods ({\S}3.4), and a new…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Frédéric Déglise , Adrien Dubouloz , Paul Arne Østvær

In the paper, results on the existence of critical points in annular subsets of a cone are obtained with the additional goal of obtaining multiplicity results. Compared to other approaches in the literature based on the use of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Radu Precup , Andrei Stan