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Topology-guided physics-informed neural networks for modeling and control of fractional chaotic Lorenz dynamics

Ahmet Yildirim1*
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1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ege University, Bornova, İzmir , Türkiye
Received: 15 July 2026 | Revised: 4 October 2026 | Accepted: 15 October 2026 | Published online: 13 November 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Accurate modeling and control of fractional chaotic systems remain challenging due to their memory-dependent dynamics and sensitivity to initial conditions. In this paper, a topology-guided physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework is proposed to model, analyze, and control the fractional chaotic Lorenz system. The classical Lorenz system is generalized using the ψ-Hilfer fractional derivative. A PINN is developed to directly learn the fractional chaotic Lorenz system’s state trajectories while respecting its dynamics. Structure-preserving information is incorporated during training through a differentiable normalized pairwise-distance surrogate motivated by the Vietoris–Rips filtration, while Betti numbers, total persistence, persistence entropy, and Wasserstein distance are computed independently as post-training measures of topological fidelity. The PINN is evaluated for different parameters of the fractional chaotic Lorenz system. The numerical results demonstrate accurate trajectory reconstruction and enable post-training assessment of topological agreement, while a separately trained neural controller successfully stabilizes the fractional Lorenz system around the prescribed target equilibrium. Therefore, the proposed framework integrates fractional modeling, physics-informed learning, structure-guided reconstruction, persistent-homology analysis, and neural control within a unified two-stage methodology.

Keywords
Fractional Lorenz system
ψ-Hilfer derivative
Physics-informed neural networks
Chaos control
Nonlinear dynamics
Topological data analysis
Persistent homology
Funding
The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Conflict of interest
The author declares no competing interests.
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