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The notion of the Urysohn $d$-width measures to what extent a metric space can be approximated by a $d$-dimensional simplicial complex. We investigate how local Urysohn width bounds on a riemannian manifold affect its global width. We bound…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Alexey Balitskiy , Aleksandr Berdnikov

We discuss various questions of the following kind: for a continuous map $X \to Y$ from a compact metric space to a simplicial complex, can one guarantee the existence of a fiber large in the sense of Urysohn width? The $d$-width measures…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Alexey Balitskiy , Aleksandr Berdnikov

In this article we offer a comprehensive analysis of the Urysohn's classifier in a binary classification context. It utilizes Urysohn's Lemma of Topology to construct separating functions, providing rigorous and adaptable solutions.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-12-20 Ernesto Lopez Fune

Network complexity has been studied for over half a century and has found a wide range of applications. Many methods have been developed to characterize and estimate the complexity of networks. However, there has been little research with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Yann Issartel

Detecting the dimension of a hidden manifold from a point sample has become an important problem in the current data-driven era. Indeed, estimating the shape dimension is often the first step in studying the processes or phenomena…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Tamal K. Dey , Fengtao Fan , Yusu Wang

Many problems in Discrete and Computational Geometry deal with simple polygons or polygonal regions. Many algorithms and data-structures perform considerably faster, if the underlying polygonal region has low local complexity. One obstacle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Fabian Klute , Meghana M. Reddy , Tillmann Miltzow

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

Dimensionality is one of the most important properties of complex physical systems. However, only recently this concept has been considered in the context of complex networks. In this paper we further develop the previously introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-19 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

The Urysohn space is a separable complete metric space with two fundamental properties: (a) universality: every separable metric space can be isometrically embedded in it; (b) ultrahomogeneity: every finite isometry between two finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-05 David Bryant , André Nies , Paul Tupper

We introduce a model of the set of all Polish (=separable complete metric) spaces: the cone $\cal R$ of distance matrices, and consider geometric and probabilistic problems connected with this object. The notion of the universal distance…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Vershik

Topological complexity is a homotopy invariant that measures the minimal number of continuous rules required for motion planning in a space. In this work, we introduce persistent analogs of topological complexity and its cohomological lower…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Facundo Mémoli , Ling Zhou

Exploiting the special features of four-dimensional Riemannian geometry, we derive topological and rigidity results for hypersurfaces immersed in space forms of dimension 5. First, we provide a complete description of the Weyl tensor for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Davide Dameno , Aaron J. Tyrrell

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) algorithms form a family of incomplete approaches to the graph isomorphism problem. They recently found various applications in algorithmic group theory and machine learning. In fact, the algorithms form a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Thomas Schneider , Pascal Schweitzer

Understanding the complex hierarchical topology of functional brain networks is a key aspect of functional connectivity research. Such topics are obscured by the widespread use of sparse binary network models which are fundamentally…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-17 Keith Smith , Javier Escudero

Topological data analysis is becoming a popular way to study high dimensional feature spaces without any contextual clues or assumptions. This paper concerns itself with one popular topological feature, which is the number of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Rushil Anirudh , Vinay Venkataraman , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Pavan Turaga

What does it mean for a shape to change continuously? Over the space of convex regions, there is only one "reasonable" answer. However, over a broader class of regions, such as the class of star-shaped regions, there can be many different…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Ernest Davis

Rademacher complexity is often used to characterize the learnability of a hypothesis class and is known to be related to the class size. We leverage this observation and introduce a new technique for estimating the size of an arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Jonathan Kuck , Ashish Sabharwal , Stefano Ermon

The classic lower bound of Kuhn, Moscibroda and Wattenhofer [JACM 2016] states that approximate maximum matching and approximate vertex cover (among other problems) in the LOCAL model require $\Omega(\min\{\sqrt{\frac{\log n}{\log\log n}},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Peter Davies-Peck

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension is an established measure for the inherent descriptive complexity of graphs and relational structures. It corresponds to the number of variables that are needed and sufficient to define the object of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Sandra Kiefer , Daniel Neuen

This paper introduces a methodology based on Euclidean information theory to investigate local properties of secure communication over discrete memoryless wiretap channels. We formulate a constrained optimization problem that maximizes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Emmanouil M. Athanasakos , Nicholas Kalouptsidis , Hariprasad Manjunath
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