2022/07/14 by Kelly Spendlove, Spendlove, Kelly, Robert Vandervorst +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · #06-04 #06-08 #06D05 #06E05 #37B35 #37C70 #37M22 #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.06971
openalex publication_date 2022/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
To capture the global structure of a dynamical system we reformulate dynamics in terms of appropriately constructed topologies, which we call flow topologies; we call this process topologization. This yields a description of a semi-flow in terms of a bi-topological space, with the first topology corresponding to the (phase) space and the second to the flow topology. A study of topology is facilitated through discretization, i.e. defining and examining appropriate finite sub-structures. Topologizing the dynamics provides an elegant solution to their discretization by discretizing the associated flow topologies. We introduce Morse pre-orders, an instance of a more general bi-topological discretization, which synthesize the space and flow topologies, and encode the directionality of dynamics. We describe how Morse pre-orders can be augmented with appropriate (co)homological information in order to describe invariance of the dynamics; this ensemble provides an algebraization of the semi-flow. An illustration of the main ingredients of the paper is provided by an application to the theory of discrete parabolic flows. Algebraization yields a new invariant for positive braids in terms of a bi-graded differential module which contains Morse theoretic information of parabolic flows.