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Topological spaces - such as classifying spaces, configuration spaces and spacetimes - often admit extra temporal structure. Qualitative invariants on such directed spaces often are more informative yet more difficult to calculate than…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Sanjeevi Krishnan

The Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a space was introduced to obtain a lower bound on the number of critical points of a $C^1$-function on a given manifold. Related to Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and motivated by topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

We consider the problem of efficiently computing a discrete Morse complex on simplicial complexes of arbitrary dimension and very large size. Based on a common graph-based formalism, we analyze existing data structures for simplicial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ulderico Fugacci , Federico Iuricich , Leila De Floriani

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

In this paper, we introduce a property of topological dynamical systems that we call finite dynamical complexity. For systems with this property, one can in principle compute the $K$-theory of the associated crossed product $C^*$-algebra by…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Erik Guentner , Rufus Willett , Guoliang Yu

We introduce the geodesic complexity of a metric space, inspired by the topological complexity of a topological space. Both of them are numerical invariants, but, while the TC only depends on the homotopy type, the GC is an invariant under…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-14 David Recio-Mitter

Topological complexity is a numerical homotopy invariant that measures the instability of motion planning in a space. To study the topological complexity of non-simply connected spaces, Costa and Farber introduced a cohomology class whose…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Yuki Minowa

In this paper, we introduce the n-th discrete topological complexity and study its properties such as its relation with simplicial Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and how the higher dimensions of discrete topological complexity relate with…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Hilal Alabay , Ayse Borat , Esra Cihangirli , Esma Dirican Erdal

Motion planning is a difficult problem in robot control. The complexity of the problem is directly related to the dimension of the robot's configuration space. While in many theoretical calculations and practical applications the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Felix Wiebe , Shivesh Kumar , Daniel Harnack , Malte Langosz , Hendrik Wöhrle , Frank Kirchner

A central problem in topological data analysis is that of computing the homology of a given simplicial complex. Said complexes can have arbitrary large number of simplices, as can happen, for example, if the space is the Rips-Vietoris or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Francisco Martinez-Figueroa

We introduce higher simplicial complexity of a simplicial complex $K$ and higher combinatorial complexity of a finite space $P$ (i.e. $P$ is a finite poset). We relate higher simplicial complexity with higher topological complexity of $|K|$…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Amit Kumar Paul

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

Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and $K\subset M$ be a simplicial complex of codimension at least 3. Functor calculus methods lead to a homotopical formula of $M\setminus K$ in terms of spaces $M\setminus T$ where $T$ is a finite subset of $K$.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Steffen Tillmann

We survey results on the topological complexity of classical configuration spaces of distinct ordered points in orientable surfaces and related spaces, including certain orbit configuration spaces and Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces associated to…

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

We use the topology of simplicial complexes to model political structures following [1]. Simplicial complexes are a natural tool to encode interactions in the structures since a simplex can be used to represent a subset of compatible…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-07 Andrea Mock , Ismar Volic

In the directed setting, the spaces of directed paths between fixed initial and terminal points are the defining feature for distinguishing different directed spaces. The simplest case is when the space of directed paths is homotopy…

We give a new explicit construction for the simplicial group $K(A,n)$. We explain the topological interpretation and discuss some possible applications.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Mihai D. Staic

In this paper we introduce a new model of random simplicial complexes depending on multiple probability parameters. This model includes the well-known Linial - Meshulam random simplicial complexes and random clique complexes as special…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-03 A. Costa , M. Farber

The present paper mainly presents, for example, explicit classifications of compact smooth manifolds having non-empty boundaries and simple structures where the dimensions are general. Studies of this type is fundamental and important. They…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Naoki Kitazawa

We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-05 Vsevolod Salnikov , Daniele Cassese , Renaud Lambiotte