Treffer: Topological data analysis approach to time series and shape analysis of dynamical system.

In a dynamical system, the time series and phase space play vital roles, and we applied topological data analysis to these characteristics. More precisely, we consider the well-known Rössler-like attractor to analyze time-series and phase-space images. We studied persistent homology representations directly from the time series of the system to obtain point cloud data. In our approach, we converted the time series to a point cloud and computed homology using the Rips complex. This enabled us to measure the topological features of the system behavior. We also applied cubical homology to phase-space images for the first time, a novel contribution that represents an image-based approach to analyze phase portraits. This article provides a review of the topological data analysis of time series using examples with the Python function. Finally, we computed topological machine learning features, such as persistent landscapes, persistence images, and Betti curves. These features enable the automated analysis and classification of dynamical behaviors and, hence, connect topological data analysis with machine learning. This study is new in that it presents a comprehensive topological data analysis pipeline tailored to dynamical systems. The goal is to make these approaches accessible and usable for nonlinear dynamics to analyze their temporal series and phase portraits.
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