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20242026
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8 papers

math.GT2026

Existence of Minimal Homotopies for Immersed Planar Curves

Lia Buchbinder, Yunjia Kou, Bala Krishnamoorthy +1

We study the existence of area-minimizing homotopies between homotopic curves in the plane. While the classical Plateau problem establishes the existence of least-area surfaces spa…

math.GT2026

Minimal Homotopies in Three Dimensions: A Cable System Approach

Lia Buchbinder, Bala Krishnamoorthy, Kevin R. Vixie

We study null homotopies of immersed spheres in and the volume they sweep during contraction. For a smooth immersion with finitely many transverse self-intersections…

math.AT2026

A Stable Measure of Chaos in Dynamical Systems using Persistent Homology

Bala Krishnamoorthy, Elizabeth Thompson

Many real-world dynamics exhibit chaos, a phenomenon in which neighboring trajectories in the state space of a dynamical system diverge exponentially over time. A common measure us…

math.AT2026

A Stable Measure of Similarity for Time Series using Persistent Homology

Bala Krishnamoorthy, Elizabeth P. Thompson

Persistent homology, the study of holes that appear in data as one thickens balls centered around its points over time, has theoretically guaranteed stability. That is, small data…

stat.ML2025

Weighted MCC: A Robust Measure of Multiclass Classifier Performance for Observations with Individual Weights

Rommel Cortez, Bala Krishnamoorthy

Several performance measures are used to evaluate binary and multiclass classification tasks. But individual observations may often have distinct weights, and none of these measure…

cs.CG2025

Box Filtration

Enrique Alvarado, Prashant Gupta, Bala Krishnamoorthy

We define a new framework that unifies the filtration and mapper approaches from TDA, and present efficient algorithms to compute it. Termed the box filtration of a PCD, we grow bo…