English
Related papers

Related papers: Is magnitude 'generically continuous' for finite m…

200 papers

The magnitude of metric spaces does not appear to possess a simple, convenient continuity property, and previous studies have presented affirmative results under additional constraints or weaker notions, as well as counterexamples. In this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Byungchang So

Magnitude is an isometric invariant of metric spaces introduced by Leinster. Since its inception, it has inspired active research into its connections with integral geometry, geometric measure theory, fractal dimensions, persistent…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Sara Kališnik , Davorin Lešnik

Magnitude is an isometric invariant of metric spaces introduced by Leinster. Although magnitude is nowhere continuous on the Gromov-Hausdorff space of finite metric spaces, continuity results are possible if we restrict the ambient space.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Sara Kalisnik , Davorin Lesnik

Magnitude is a real-valued invariant of metric spaces, analogous to the Euler characteristic of topological spaces and the cardinality of sets. The definition of magnitude is a special case of a general categorical definition that clarifies…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Tom Leinster

The magnitude of a metric space is a real-valued function whose parameter controls the scale of the metric. A metric space is said to have the one-point property if its magnitude converges to 1 as the space is scaled down to a point. Not…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Emily Roff , Masahiko Yoshinaga

Magnitude is a numerical isometric invariant of metric spaces, whose definition arises from a precise analogy between categories and metric spaces. Despite this exotic provenance, magnitude turns out to encode many invariants from integral…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Tom Leinster , Mark W. Meckes

Magnitude homology is an emerging framework that captures the intrinsic topological and geometric features of metric spaces, demonstrating significant potential for topoplogical data analysis and geometric data analysis. This work…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Wanying Bi , Hongsong Feng , Jingyan Li , Jie Wu

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of compact metric spaces. Its theory is most mature for spaces satisfying the classical condition of being of negative type, and the magnitude of such a space lies in the interval $[1, \infty]$. Until now,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Tom Leinster , Mark Meckes

The magnitude of a metric space is a novel invariant that provides a measure of the 'effective size' of a space across multiple scales, while also capturing numerous geometrical properties, such as curvature, density, or entropy. We develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Katharina Limbeck , Rayna Andreeva , Rik Sarkar , Bastian Rieck

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of finite metric spaces, recently introduced by T. Leinster, which is analogous in precise senses to the cardinality of finite sets or the Euler characteristic of topological spaces. It has been extended…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Mark W. Meckes

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of compact metric spaces, originally inspired by category theory and now known to be related to myriad other geometric quantities. Generalizing earlier results in $\ell_1^n$ and Euclidean space, we prove…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Mark W. Meckes

Deep learning models have seen significant successes in numerous applications, but their inner workings remain elusive. The purpose of this work is to quantify the learning process of deep neural networks through the lens of a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rayna Andreeva , Katharina Limbeck , Bastian Rieck , Rik Sarkar

We give sufficient conditions for a finite metric space to be determined by the magnitude function. In particular, a generic finite metric space such that the distances between the points are rationally independent is determined by the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Jun O'Hara

The paper is devoted to the study of Gromov-Hausdorff convergence and stability of irreversible metric-measure spaces, both in the compact and noncompact cases. While the compact setting is mostly similar to the reversible case developed by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Alexandru Kristály , Wei Zhao

The Gromov--Hausdorff distance (hereinafter referred to as the GH-distance) is a measure of non-isometricity of metric spaces. In this paper, we study a modification of this distance that also takes topological differences into account. The…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Semeon A. Bogaty , Alexey A. Tuzhilin

In this paper we introduce the persistent magnitude, a new numerical invariant of (sufficiently nice) graded persistence modules. It is a weighted and signed count of the bars of the persistence module, in which a bar of the form $[a,b)$ in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Dejan Govc , Richard Hepworth

The main result of this article is a geometric interpretation of magnitude, a real-valued invariant of metric spaces. We introduce a Euclidean embedding of a (suitable) finite metric space $X$ such that the magnitude of $X$ can be expressed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Karel Devriendt

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of metric spaces introduced by Leinster, motivated by considerations from category theory. This paper extends the original definition for finite spaces to compact spaces, in an equivalent but more natural…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Mark W. Meckes

Techniques from metric geometry have become fundamental tools in modern mathematical data science, providing principled methods for comparing datasets modeled as finite metric spaces. Two of the central tools in this area are the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yaoying Fu , Evgeniya Lagoda , Shiying Li , Tom Needham , Lander Ver Hoef , Morgan Weiler

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of enriched categories, including in particular metric spaces as $[0,\infty)$-enriched categories. We show that in many cases magnitude can be categorified to a homology theory for enriched categories,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Tom Leinster , Michael Shulman
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›