Tools of Topological Data Analysis provide stable summaries encapsulating the shape of the considered data. Persistent homology, the most standard and well studied data summary, suffers a number of limitations; its computations are hard to distribute, it is hard to generalize to multifiltrations and is computationally prohibitive for big data-sets. In this paper we study the concept of Euler Characteristics Curves, for one parameter filtrations and Euler Characteristic Profiles, for multi-parameter filtrations. While being a weaker invariant in one dimension, we show that Euler Characteristic based approaches do not possess some handicaps of persistent homology; we show efficient algorithms to compute them in a distributed way, their generalization to multifiltrations and practical applicability for big data problems. In addition we show that the Euler Curves and Profiles enjoys certain type of stability which makes them robust tool in data analysis. Lastly, to show their practical applicability, multiple use-cases are considered.

Data science offers a powerful tool to understand objects in multiple sciences. In this paper we utilize concept of data science, most notably topological data analysis, to extend our understanding of knot theory. This approach provides a way to extend mathematical exposition of various invariants of knots towards understanding their relations in statistical and cumulative way. Paper included examples illustrating how topological data analysis can illuminate structure and relations between knot invariants, state new hypothesis, and gain new insides into long standing conjectures.

This paper presents a combinatorial study of sums of integer powers of the cotangent which is a popular theme in classical calculus. Our main tool the realization of cotangent values as eigenvalues of a simple self-adjoint matrix with integer matrix. We use the trace method to draw conclusions about integer values of the sums and expand generating functions to obtain explicit evaluations. It is remarkable that throughout the calculations the combinatorics are governed by the higher tangent and arctangent numbers exclusively. Finally we indicate a new approximation of the values of the Riemann zeta function at even integer arguments.

The clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio are concepts often used in network analysis, which creates a need for fast practical algorithms for counting triangles in large graphs. Previous research in this area focused on sequential algorithms, MapReduce parallelization, and fast approximations. In this paper we propose a parallel triangle counting algorithm for CUDA GPU. We describe the implementation details necessary to achieve high performance and present the experimental evaluation of our approach. Our algorithm achieves 8 to 15 times speedup over the CPU implementation and is capable of finding 3.8 billion triangles in an 89 million edges graph in less than 10 seconds on the Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPU.

We prove a local regularity (and a corresponding a priori estmate) for plurisubharmonic solutions of the nondegenerate complex Monge-Amp\'ere equation assuming that their $W^{2,p}$-norm is under control for some $p>n(n-1)$. This condition is optimal. We use in particular some methods developed by Trudinger and an $L^q$-estimate for the complex Monge-Amp\'ere equation due to Ko{\l}odziej.

This is the second in a series of papers discussing in the framework of gerbe theory canonical and geometric aspects of the 2d nonlinear sigma model in the presence of conformal defects in the worldsheet. Employing the formal tools worked out in the first paper of the series, 1101.1126 [hep-th], a thorough analysis of rigid symmetries of the sigma model is carried out with emphasis on algebraic structures on generalised tangent bundles over the target space of the theory and over its state space that give rise to a realisation of the symmetry algebra on states. The analysis leads to a proposal for a novel differential-algebraic construct extending the original definition of the (gerbe-twisted) Courant algebroid on the generalised tangent bundles over the target space in a manner codetermined by the structure of the 2-category of abelian bundle gerbes with connection over it. The construct admits a neat interpretation in terms of a relative Cartan calculus associated with the hierarchy of manifolds that compose the target space of the multiphase sigma model. The paper also discusses at length the gauge anomaly for the rigid symmetries, derived and quantified cohomologically in a previous work of Gawȩdzki, Waldorf and the author. The ensuing reinterpretation of the small gauge anomaly in terms of the twisted rel. Courant algebroid modelling the Poisson algebra of Noether charges of the symmetries is elucidated through an equivalence between a category built from data of the gauged sigma model and that of principal bundles over the worldsheet with a structural action groupoid based on the target space. Finally, the large gauge anomaly is identified with the obstruction to the existence of topological defect networks implementing the action of the gauge group of the gauged sigma model and those giving a local trivialisation of a gauge bundle of an arbitrary topology over the worldsheet.