papers

Publications (26)

hep-th2026

Landau Singularities from Whitney Stratifications

Martin Helmer, Georgios Papathanasiou, Felix Tellander

We demonstrate that the complete and non-redundant set of Landau singularities of Feynman integrals may be explicitly obtained from the Whitney stratification of a certain map. As…

math.AG2019

Probabilistic Saturations and Alt's Problem

Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Martin Helmer

Alt's problem, formulated in 1923, is to count the number of four-bar linkages whose coupler curve interpolates nine general points in the plane. This problem can be phrased as cou…

math.AG2025

Effective Whitney Stratification of Real Algebraic Varieties

Martin Helmer, Anton Leykin, Vidit Nanda

We describe new algorithms to compute Whitney stratifications of real algebraic varieties. Using either conormal or polar techniques, these algorithms stratify a complexification o…

q-bio.QM2019

Complexity of Model Testing for Dynamical Systems with Toric Steady States

Michael F Adamer, Martin Helmer

In this paper we investigate the complexity of model selection and model testing for dynamical systems with toric steady states. Such systems frequently arise in the study of chemi…

q-bio.MN2019

Families of Toric Chemical Reaction Networks

Michael F. Adamer, Martin Helmer

We study families of chemical reaction networks whose positive steady states are toric, and therefore can be parameterized by monomials. Families are constructed algorithmically fr…

math.AG2024

Stratification of Projection Maps From Toric Varieties

Boulos El Hilany, Martin Helmer, Elias Tsigaridas

We prove a combinatorial version of Thom's Isotopy Lemma for projection maps applied to any complex or real toric variety. Our results are constructive and give rise to a method fo…