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
Macaulay2package
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.