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Computing path signature varieties in Macaulay2

Carlos Améndola, Angelo El Saliby, Felix Lotter and Oriol Reig Fité

Vol. 16 (2026), 45–57
DOI: 10.2140/jsag.2026.16.45
Abstract

The signature of a path is a noncommutative power series whose coefficients are given by certain iterated integrals over the path coordinates. This series almost uniquely characterizes the path up to translation and reparametrization. Taking only fixed degree parts of these series yields signature tensors. We introduce the Macaulay2 package PathSignatures to simplify the study of these interesting objects for piecewise polynomial paths. It allows for the creation and manipulation of parametrized families of paths and provides methods for computing their signature tensors and their associated algebraic varieties.

Keywords
algebraic statistics, algebraic varieties, path signatures
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 14Q15, 15A69, 60L10, 60L70, 62R01
Supplementary material

A package for working with signatures of algebraic paths.

Milestones
Received: 3 July 2025
Revised: 16 December 2025
Accepted: 10 February 2026
Published: 1 May 2026
Authors
Carlos Améndola
Institute of Mathematics
Technical University Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Angelo El Saliby
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig
Germany
Felix Lotter
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig
Germany
Oriol Reig Fité
Università degli Studi di Trento
Trento
Italy