Publications and preprints

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  • (with Bartosz Furmanek, Filip Oskar Lanecki, and Mateusz Przybylski), Linear relations of finite length modules are shift equivalent to maps, submitted.  arXiv
  • A generalization of the Brouwer plane translation theorem, Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems 24, 18 (2025).  journal
  • Persistent homology of NBA lineups usage, Journal of Sports Analytics, 11 (2025).  journal
  • (with Lars English, David Jackson, David Richeson, Windsor Morgan, Kaden Sigmon, George Vollmer, Emily Dunkel, and Jack Zavrel), Solving introductory physics problems recursively using iterated maps, American Journal of Physics 93 (2025), no. 4, 336-343.  journal
  • (with Ethan Akin, Mateusz Przybylski, and Marian Mrozek), A complete invariant for shift equivalence for Boolean matrices and finite relations, Topology and its Applications 357 (2024).  journal
  • (with Mateusz Przybylski and Marian Mrozek), The Szymczak functor on the category of finite sets and finite relations, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (2023).  journal
  • (with Thomas Wiseman), When do traffic reports make traffic better?, Economics of Transportation 36 (2023). journal
  • (with Olga Bernardi and Anna Florio), Is every pseudo-orbit of some homeomorphism near an exact orbit of a nearby homeomorphism?, Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana 16 (2023), 153-162. journal
  • Persistence of Morse decompositions over grid resolution for maps and time series, Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (2022). journal
  • (with Olga Bernardi and Anna Florio), A Conley-type Lyapunov function for the strong chain recurrent set, Topology and its Applications 307 (2022). arXiv
  • (with Olga Bernardi and Anna Florio), The generalized recurrent set, explosions and Lyapunov functions, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations 32 (2020), no. 4, 1797-1817. arXiv
  • (with Ethan Akin), Chain recurrence and strong chain recurrence on uniform spaces, in Dynamical Systems and Random Processes, Contemporary Mathematics 736 (2019), 1-29. https://www.ams.org/books/conm/736/
  • (with Ethan Akin), Varieties of mixing, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 372 (2019), no. 6, 4359-4390. arXiv
  • Generalized recurrence and the nonwandering set for products, Topology and its Applications 219 (2017), 111--121. pdf
  • The generalized recurrent set and strong chain recurrence, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 38 (2018), no. 2, 788-800.  pdf
  • (with Phil Everson (statistics), Rick Valelly (political science), and Arjun Vishwanath (Swarthmore College '16)), NOMINATE and American political history:  a primer, Studies in American Political Development, 30 (October 2016), no. 2, 97--115
  • (with Fabio Drucker (Dickinson College '11) and David Richeson) Entropy for symbolic dynamics with overlapping alphabets, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 28 (2016), 301--315.  pdf
  • (with Tarun Das, Keonhee Lee, and David Richeson) Spectral decomposition for topologically Anosov homeomorphisms on noncompact and non-metrizable spaces, Topology and its Applications 160 (2013), 149-158. pdf
  • (with David Richeson) Symbolic dynamics for nonhyperbolic systems, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 138 (2010), 4373-4385.  pdf
  • (with David Richeson and Paul Winkler) Itineraries of rigid rotations and diffeomorphisms of the circle, Theoretical Computer Science 411 (2010), no. 1, 259-265.  pdf
  • (with David Richeson) Chain recurrence rates and topological entropy, Topology and its Applications 156 (2008), no. 2, 251-261.  pdf
  • (with David Richeson) Positively expansive dynamical systems, Topology and its Applications 154 (2007), no. 3, 604-613.  pdf
  • (with Danielle Silverman (Swarthmore College '04)) Noting the difference: musical scales and permutations. American Mathematical Monthly 113 (2006), no. 7, 648-651. pdf
  • (with David Richeson) Positively expansive homeomorphisms of compact spaces. International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 54 (2004), 2907-2910.  pdf
  • The square of a map, symbolic dynamics, and the Conley index. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 37 (2007), no. 1, 327-342.  pdf
  • (with David Richeson) Bounded homeomorphisms of the open annulus.  New York Journal of Mathematics 9 (2003), 55-68.  pdf
  • Symbolic dynamics from signed matrices. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems 11 (2004), nos. 2&3, 621-638.  pdf
  • Detection of renewal system factors via the Conley index. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 354 (2002), no. 12, 4953-4968.  pdf
  • (with David Richeson) A fixed point theorem for bounded dynamical systems. Illinois Journal of Mathematics 46 (2002), no. 2, 491-495.  pdf  Addendum, Illinois Journal of Mathematics 48 (2004), no. 3, 1079-1080.  pdf
  • Approval voting in subset elections, Economic Theory 15 (2000), no. 2, 477-483.  pdf
Jim Wiseman
Department of Mathematics
Agnes Scott College