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The Global Topology of Orthogonally Decomposable Tensor Landscapes

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 36 references
Mathematics Physics

Abstract

The homogeneous form associated with a symmetric tensor, restricted to the sphere, is the objective of the best rank-one approximation problem and, with random coefficients, the energy of a mean-field spin glass. Its critical points have been studied extensively, but the global organization of the landscape they form is far less understood. We study this global structure for positive orthogonally decomposable tensors. We determine the persistent homology of the sublevel and superlevel filtrations in closed form, for every homological dimension $q$, every ambient dimension $D$ and every tensor order $k$, via a recurrence in the ambient dimension. Taking the coefficients to be random, we further prove laws of large numbers for the resulting persistence diagrams at dimension $0$ and $D-2$, giving an exact description of the typical global topology of a spin-glass-like energy landscape. We illustrate our results with numerical computations and simulations.

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