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Dynamical systems appear in nearly every aspect of the physical world. As such, understanding the properties of dynamical systems is of great importance. Typically, a dynamical system is described by a system of ordinary differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Nhat A. Nghiem

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly growing area that applies techniques from algebraic topology to extract robust features from large-scale data. A key task in TDA is the estimation of (normalized) Betti numbers, which capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

This paper introduces topological data analysis. Starting from notions of a metric space and some elementary graph theory, we take example sets of data and demonstrate some of their topological properties. We discuss simplicial complexes…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Dayten Sheffar

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is the collection of mathematical tools that capture the structure of shapes in data. Despite computational topology and computational geometry, the utilization of TDA in time series and signal processing is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Shafie Gholizadeh , Wlodek Zadrozny

Given a data set with a notion of distance, such as a point cloud in Euclidean space, topological data analysis (TDA) uses techniques from algebraic topology and metric geometry to infer the topology of a hypothetical manifold from which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Arthur J. Parzygnat , Andrew Vlasic

We provide detailed evidence for the claim that nonperturbative quantum gravity, defined through state sums of causal triangulated geometries, possesses a large-scale limit in which the dimension of spacetime is four and the dynamics of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

In the quest of a physical theory of quantum gravity, spin foam models, or in short spinfoams, propose a well-defined path integral summing over quantized discrete space-time geometries. At the crossroad of topological quantum field theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Etera R. Livine

At Planck-scale, spacetime is "foamy" due to quantum fluctuations predicted by quantum gravity. Here we consider the possibility of using spacetime foam-induced phase incoherence of light from distant galaxies and gamma-ray bursters to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Jack Ng , W. A. Christiansen , H. van Dam

I introduce a continuous-variable quantum topological data algorithm. The goal of the quantum algorithm is to calculate the Betti numbers in persistent homology which are the dimensions of the kernel of the combinatorial Laplacian. I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 George Siopsis

Quantum gravity is studied nonperturbatively in the case in which space has a boundary with finite area. A natural set of boundary conditions is studied in the Euclidean signature theory, in which the pullback of the curvature to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Lee Smolin

A satisfactory theory of quantum gravity will very likely require modification of our classical perception of space-time, perhaps by giving it a 'foamy' structure at scales of order the Planck length. This is expected to modify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Subir Sarkar

An outstanding challenge for models of non-perturbative quantum gravity is the consistent formulation and quantitative evaluation of physical phenomena in a regime where geometry and matter are strongly coupled. After developing appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Benedetti , R. Loll

We recast the action principle of four dimensional General Relativity so that it becomes amenable for perturbation theory which doesn't break general covariance. The coupling constant becomes dimensionless (G_{Newton} \Lambda) and extremely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Freidel , Artem Starodubtsev

The spin-statistics connection, quantum gravity and other physical considerations suggest that classical space-time topology is not an immutable attribute and can change in quantum physics. The implementation of topology change using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-30 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , G. Marmo , I. P. Costa e Silva , A. R. de Queiroz , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho , S. Vaidya

Canonical quantum gravity provides insights into the quantum dynamics as well as quantum geometry of space-time by its implications for constraints. Loop quantum gravity in particular requires specific corrections due to its quantization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Bojowald

In this work, I review some aspects concerning the evolution of quantum low-energy fields in a foamlike spacetime, with involved topology at the Planck scale but with a smooth metric structure at large length scales, as follows. Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luis J. Garay

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

We consider the quantization of the midi-superspace associated with a class of spacetimes with toroidal isometries, but without the compact spatial hypersurfaces of the well-known Gowdy models. By a symmetry reduction, the phase space for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher Beetle

Using tangent bundle geometry we construct an equivalent reformulation of classical field theory on flat spacetimes which simultaneously encodes the perspectives of multiple observers. Its generalization to curved spacetimes realizes a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

These notes are a didactic overview of the non perturbative and background independent approach to a quantum theory of gravity known as loop quantum gravity. The definition of real connection variables for general relativity, used as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Alejandro Perez