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Coadjoint orbits of symplectic diffeomorphisms of surfaces and ideal hydrodynamics
We give a classification of generic coadjoint orbits for the groups of
symplectomorphisms and Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic
surface. We also classify simple Morse functions on symplectic surfaces with
respect to actions of those groups. This gives an answer to V.Arnold's problem
on describing all invariants of generic isovorticed fields for the 2D ideal
fluids. For this we introduce a notion of anti-derivatives on a measured Reeb
graph and describe their properties.Comment: 38 pages, 11 figures; to appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourie
Streaming Algorithm for Euler Characteristic Curves of Multidimensional Images
We present an efficient algorithm to compute Euler characteristic curves of
gray scale images of arbitrary dimension. In various applications the Euler
characteristic curve is used as a descriptor of an image.
Our algorithm is the first streaming algorithm for Euler characteristic
curves. The usage of streaming removes the necessity to store the entire image
in RAM. Experiments show that our implementation handles terabyte scale images
on commodity hardware. Due to lock-free parallelism, it scales well with the
number of processor cores. Our software---CHUNKYEuler---is available as open
source on Bitbucket.
Additionally, we put the concept of the Euler characteristic curve in the
wider context of computational topology. In particular, we explain the
connection with persistence diagrams
Circle valued Morse theory and Novikov homology
An introduction to circle valued Morse theory and Novikov homology, from an
algebraic point of view.Comment: 26 pages. Notes of lecture given at the Summer School on
High-dimensional Manifold Topology, ICTP Trieste, May-June 2001. To appear in
Vol. 1 of the Proceeding
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