avatak / braidlab

Matlab package for analyzing data using braids

braidlab

braidlab is a Matlab package for analyzing data using braids, written by Jean-Luc Thiffeault and Marko Budisic.

documentation and installation

See the braidlab user's guide in the doc folder. The guide is also posted on arXiv. For installation instructions, see the Appendix in the guide.

citing braidlab

If you use braidlab in one of your papers, please cite it as:

• J.-L. Thiffeault and Marko Budišić, Braidlab: A Software Package for Braids and Loops, arXiv:1410.0849 [math.GT] (2013-2019), Version <<version number>>.

You can use this BibTeX entry:

@Misc{braidlab,
    author = {Jean-Luc Thiffeault and Marko Budi\v{s}i\'{c}},
    title = {Braidlab: {A} Software Package for Braids and Loops},
    eprint = {arXiv:1410.0849 [math.GT]},
    url = {http://arXiv.org/abs/1410.0849},
    year = {2013--2019},
    note = {Version <<version number>>}
}

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contributors

Michael Allshouse contributed extensive testing, comments, and some of the code.

braidlab uses Toby Hall's Trains; Jae Choon Cha's CBraid; Juan Gonzalez-Meneses's Braiding; John D'Errico's Variable Precision Integer Arithmetic; Markus Buehren's assignmentoptimal; and Jakob Progsch's ThreadPool.

license

braidlab is released under the GNU General Public License v3. See COPYING and LICENSE.

support

The development of braidlab was supported by the US National Science Foundation, under grants DMS-0806821 and CMMI-1233935.