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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1343
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-13434
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2008/1343/
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Chen, Chao ; Freedman, Daniel

Quantifying Homology Classes

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Abstract

We develop a method for measuring homology classes. This involves
three problems. First, we define the size of a homology class,
using ideas from relative homology. Second, we define an optimal
basis of a homology group to be the basis whose elements' size have
the minimal sum. We provide a greedy algorithm to compute the
optimal basis and measure classes in it. The algorithm runs in
$O(\beta^4 n^3 log^2 n)$ time, where $n$ is the size of the
simplicial complex and $\beta$ is the Betti number of the homology
group. Third, we discuss different ways of localizing homology
classes and prove some hardness results.


BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs:2008:1343,
  author =	{Chao Chen and Daniel Freedman},
  title =	{{Quantifying Homology Classes}},
  booktitle =	{25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
  pages =	{169--180},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-06-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{1},
  editor =	{Susanne Albers and Pascal Weil},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2008/1343},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-13434},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1343},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational Topology, Computational Geometry, Homology, Persistent Homology, Localization, Optimization}
}

Keywords: Computational Topology, Computational Geometry, Homology, Persistent Homology, Localization, Optimization
Collection: 25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
Issue Date: 2008
Date of publication: 06.02.2008


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