Measuring shape with topology

DOI10.1063/1.4737391MaRDI QIDQ2865549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert MacPherson, Benjamin Schweinhart

Publication date 29 November 2013

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2258

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian treespolymersself-avoiding random walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We propose a measure of shape which is appropriate for the study of a complicated geometric structure, defined using the topology of neighborhoods of the structure. One aspect of this measure gives a new notion of fractal dimension. We demonstrate the utility and computability of this measure by applying it to branched polymers, Brownian trees, and self-avoiding random walks.

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