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Given a closed orientable surface (\Sigma) of genus at least two, we establish an affine isomorphism between the convex compact set of isotopy-invariant topological measures on (\Sigma) and the convex compact set of additive functions on…

General Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Frol Zapolsky

Recent works by the second author and Maxwell et al. have shown that the Einstein-scalar field conformal constraint equations are highly complex and generally intractable, even in the vacuum case. In this article, to gain a clearer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Philippe Castillon , Cang Nguyen-The

We define a (mean curvature flow) entropy for Radon measures in $\mathbb{R}^n$ or in a compact manifold. Moreover, we prove a monotonicity formula of the entropy of the measures associated with the parabolic Allen-Cahn equations. If the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Ao Sun

Topological insulator-based methods underpin the topological classification of gapped bands, including those surrounding semi-metallic nodal defects. However, multiple bands with gap-closing points can also possess non-trivial topology. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Ankur Das , Eyal Cornfeld , Sumiran Pujari

We investigate topological invariants in strongly interacting many-body systems within holographic mean-field theory (H-MFT) framework. Analytic expressions for retarded Green's functions are obtained for all possible fermionic bilinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Moongul Byun , Taewon Yuk , Young-Kwon Han , Debabrata Ghorai , Sang-Jin Sin

This paper proposes a new variational model by integrating the Allen-Cahn term with a local binary fitting energy term for segmenting images with intensity inhomogeneity and noise. An inhomogeneous graph Laplacian initialization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Chaoyu liu , Zhonghua Qiao , Qian Zhang

A central objective of topological data analysis is to identify topologically significant features in data represented as a finite point cloud. We consider the setting where the ambient space of the point sample is a compact Riemannian…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Ka Man Yim

In this work we consider a question in the calculus of variations motivated by riemannian geometry, the isoperimetric problem. We show that solutions to the isoperimetric problem, close in the flat norm to a smooth submanifold, are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Stefano Nardulli

We consider formal matched asymptotics to show the convergence of a degenerate area preserving surface Allen-Cahn equation to its sharp interface limit of area preserving geodesic curvature flow. The degeneracy results from a surface de…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Michal Benes , Miroslav Kolar , Jan M. Sischka , Axel Voigt

I review some recent results on four-manifold invariants which have been obtained in the context of topological quantum field theory. I focus on three different aspects: (a) the computation of correlation functions, which give explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcos Marino

In the paper, results on the existence of critical points in annular subsets of a cone are obtained with the additional goal of obtaining multiplicity results. Compared to other approaches in the literature based on the use of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Radu Precup , Andrei Stan

In this paper, the mathematical properties and numerical discretizations of multiphase models that simulate the phase separation of an $N$-component mixture are studied. For the general choice of phase variables, the unisolvent property of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

We study two-dimensional periodic metamaterials in which idealised cylindrical inclusions are modelled by boundary conditions. In the scalar time-harmonic setting, the background field satisfies the Helmholtz equation, and high-contrast…

In the realm of invertible symmetry, the topological approach based on classifying spaces dominates the classification of 't Hooft anomalies and symmetry protected topological phases. We explore the alternative algebraic approach based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Shi Chen

We present a convergence result for solutions of the vector-valued Allen-Cahn Equation. In the spirit of the work of Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker we establish convergence towards a distributional formulation of multi-phase mean-curvature flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Tim Laux , Thilo Simon

In this paper, we consider the sharp interface limit of a matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation, which takes the form: $$\partial_t A=\Delta A-\varepsilon^{-2}( A A^{\mathrm{T}}A-…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Mingwen Fei , Fanghua Lin , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

This work is concerned with the proof of \emph{a posteriori} error estimates for fully-discrete Galerkin approximations of the Allen-Cahn equation in two and three spatial dimensions. The numerical method comprises of the backward Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Dimitra Plaka

The parabolic Allen-Cahn equation is a semilinear partial differential equation linked to the mean curvature flow by a singular perturbation. We show an improved convergence property of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation to the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Huy The Nguyen , Shengwen Wang

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

Living systems exhibit complex yet organized behavior on multiple spatiotemporal scales. To investigate the nature of multiscale coordination in living systems, one needs a meaningful and systematic way to quantify the complex dynamics, a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-11 Mengsen Zhang , William D. Kalies , J. A. Scott Kelso , Emmanuelle Tognoli