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We generalize some homotopy calculation techniques such as splittings and matching trees that are introduced for the computations in the case of the independence complexes of graphs to arbitrary simplicial complexes, and exemplify their…

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The Hom complex $\mathrm{Hom}(G, H)$ of graphs is a simplicial complex associated to a pair of graphs $G$ and $H$, and its homotopy type is of interest in the graph coloring problem and the homomorphism reconfiguration problem. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Takahiro Matsushita

For any orbifold M, we explicitly construct a simplicial complex S(M) from a given triangulation of the `coarse' underlying space together with the local isotropy groups of M. We prove that, for any local system on M, this complex S(M) has…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ieke Moerdijk , Dorette A Pronk

The homological scaffold leverages persistent homology to construct a topologically sound summary of a weighted network. However, its crucial dependency on the choice of representative cycles hinders the ability to trace back global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Marco Guerra , Alessandro De Gregorio , Ulderico Fugacci , Giovanni Petri , Francesco Vaccarino

A topology preserving skeleton is a synthetic representation of an object that retains its topology and many of its significant morphological properties. The process of obtaining the skeleton, referred to as skeletonization or thinning, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Paweł Dłotko , Ruben Specogna

This article proposes an algorithm that constructs a Sullivan minimal model for any simply connected simplicial set with effective homology and thereby allows one to decide algorithmically whether two simply connected spaces represented by…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Mária Šimková

This paper describes an approach to computer aided calculations in the cohomology of arithmetic groups. It complements existing literature on the topic by emphasizing homotopies and perturbation techniques, rather than cellular subdivision,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Graham Ellis

In this article we consider the homotopy theory of stratified spaces through a simplicial point of view. We first consider a model category of filtered simplicial sets over some fixed poset $P$, and show that it is a simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Sylvain Douteau

We provide a short introduction to the field of topological data analysis and discuss its possible relevance for the study of complex systems. Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to characterise the shape of data, in terms of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-05 Vsevolod Salnikov , Daniele Cassese , Renaud Lambiotte

Simplicial complex (SC) representation is an elegant mathematical framework for representing the effect of complexes or groups with higher-order interactions in a variety of complex systems ranging from brain networks to social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-12 Yongsun Lee , Jongshin Lee , Soo Min Oh , Deokjae Lee , B. Kahng

The structure representation of data distribution plays an important role in understanding the underlying mechanism of generating data. In this paper, we propose nearest prime simplicial complex approaches (NSC) by utilizing persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Junping Zhang , Ziyu Xie , Stan Z. Li

In this paper, we investigate the question of how one can recover the homology of a simplicial complex $X$ equipped with a regular action of a finite group $G$ from the structure of its quotient space $X/G.$ Specifically, we describe a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Christine Escher , Chad Giusti , Chung-Ping Lai

For any simplicial complex $X$ with a total ordering of its vertices, one can construct a chain complex $\mathbb{L}_\bullet(X)$ generated by necklaces of simplices in $X$, which computes the homology of the free loop space of the geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Luis Fernandez , Manuel Rivera , Thomas Tradler

Cycle representatives of persistent homology classes can be used to provide descriptions of topological features in data. However, the non-uniqueness of these representatives creates ambiguity and can lead to many different interpretations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Lu Li , Connor Thompson , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Chad Giusti , Lori Ziegelmeier

simpcomp is an extension (a so called package) to GAP, the well known system for computational discrete algebra. The package enables the user to compute numerous properties of (abstract) simplicial complexes, provides functions to construct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Felix Effenberger , Jonathan Spreer

A periodic cell complex, $K$, has a finite representation as the quotient space, $q(K)$, consisting of equivalence classes of cells identified under the translation group acting on $K$. We study how the Betti numbers and cycles of $K$ are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Adam Onus , Vanessa Robins

Given finite simple graphs $G$ and $H$, the Hom complex $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ is a polyhedral complex having the graph homomorphisms $G\to H$ as the vertices. We determine the homotopy type of each connected component of $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Soichiro Fujii , Kei Kimura , Yuta Nozaki

The singular simplicial set Sing(X) of a space X completely captures its weak homotopy type. We introduce a category of_controlled sets_, yielding _simplicial controlled sets_, such that one can functorially produce a singular simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Viêt-Trung Luu

Computing homology and cohomology is at the heart of many recent works and a key issue for topological data analysis. Among homological objects, homology generators are useful to locate or understand holes (especially for geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Yann-Situ Gazull , Aldo Gonzalez-Lorenzo , Alexandra Bac

Any finite simplicial complex K and a partition of the vertex set of K determines a canonical quotient space of the moment-angle complex of K. We prove that the cohomology groups of such a space can be computed via some Hochster's type…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Li Yu