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We develop a method to calculate the persistent currents and their spatial distribution (and transport properties) on graphs made of quasi-1D diffusive wires. They are directly related to the field derivatives of the determinant of a matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Pascaud , G. Montambaux

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

The theory of multidimensional persistent homology was initially developed in the discrete setting, and involved the study of simplicial complexes filtered through an ordering of the simplices. Later, stability properties of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Niccolò Cavazza , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini , Tomasz Kaczynski , Claudia Landi

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Rui Wang , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

This technical report introduces a novel approach to efficient computation in homological algebra over fields, with particular emphasis on computing the persistent homology of a filtered topological cell complex. The algorithms here…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Gregory Henselman , Robert Ghrist

The intrinsic connection between lattice theory and topology is fairly well established, For instance, the collection of open subsets of a topological subspace always forms a distributive lattice. Persistent homology has been one of the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Primož Škraba , João Pita Costa

In Mathematical Morphology (MM), connected filters based on dynamics are used to filter the extrema of an image. Similarly, persistence is a concept coming from Persistent Homology (PH) and Morse Theory (MT) that represents the stability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Nicolas Boutry , Laurent Najman , Thierry Géraud

A challenging problem in complex networks is the network reconstruction problem from data. This work deals with a class of networks denoted as conserved networks, in which a flow associated with every edge and the flows are conserved at all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Satya Jayadev P. , Shankar Narasimhan , Nirav Bhatt

This paper builds upon the framework of \emph{Morse sequences}, a simple and effective approach to discrete Morse theory. A Morse sequence on a simplicial complex consists of a sequence of nested subcomplexes generated by expansions and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gilles Bertrand

Obtaining sparse, interpretable representations of observable data is crucial in many machine learning and signal processing tasks. For data representing flows along the edges of a graph, an intuitively interpretable way to obtain such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Josef Hoppe , Michael T. Schaub

The field of mathematical morphology offers well-studied techniques for image processing. In this work, we view morphological operations through the lens of persistent homology, a tool at the heart of the field of topological data analysis.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu-Min Chung , Sarah Day , Chuan-Shen Hu

For general complex or real 1-parameter matrix flows $A(t)_{n,n}$ and for time-invariant static matrices $A \in \CC_{n,n}$ alike, this paper considers ways to decompose matrix flows and single matrices globally via one constant matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Frank Uhlig

The theory of multidimensional persistence captures the topology of a multifiltration -- a multiparameter family of increasing spaces. Multifiltrations arise naturally in the topological analysis of scientific data. In this paper, we give a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Gunnar Carlsson , Gurjeet Singh , Afra Zomorodian

Persistent homology captures the evolution of topological features of a model as a parameter changes. The most commonly used summary statistics of persistent homology are the barcode and the persistence diagram. Another summary statistic,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-01 Violeta Kovacev-Nikolic , Peter Bubenik , Dragan Nikolić , Giseon Heo

In the context of discrete Morse theory, we introduce Morse frames, which are maps that associate a set of critical simplexes to all simplexes. The main example of Morse frames are the Morse references. In particular, these Morse references…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Gilles Bertrand , Laurent Najman

Solving optimization tasks based on functions and losses with a topological flavor is a very active, growing field of research in data science and Topological Data Analysis, with applications in non-convex optimization, statistics and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Mathieu Carrière , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuichi Ike , Hariprasad Kannan

A new notion of displacement convexity on a matrix level is developed for density flows arising from mean-field games, compressible Euler equations, entropic interpolation, and semi-classical limits of non-linear Schr\"odinger equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Yair Shenfeld

Vector fields and line fields, their counterparts without orientations on tangent lines, are familiar objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Among the techniques used in their study, the Morse--Smale decomposition of a (generic) field…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Tiago Novello , João Paixão , Carlos Tomei , Thomas Lewiner

The persistence diagram, which describes the topological features of a dataset, is a key descriptor in Topological Data Analysis. The "Discrete Morse Sandwich" (DMS) method has been reported to be the most efficient algorithm for computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Eve Le Guillou , Pierre Fortin , Julien Tierny

We rely on the framework of Morse sequences to enable the direct computation of gradient vector fields on simplicial complexes. A Morse sequence is a filtration from a subcomplex $L$ to a complex $K$ via elementary expansions and fillings,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Gilles Bertrand , Laurent Najman