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We describe and analyze a numerical algorithm for computing the homology (Betti numbers and torsion coefficients) of semialgebraic sets given by Boolean formulas. The algorithm works in weak exponential time. This means that outside a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Peter Bürgisser , Felipe Cucker , Josué Tonelli-Cueto

We describe and analyze an algorithm for computing the homology (Betti numbers and torsion coefficients) of basic semialgebraic sets which works in weak exponential time. That is, out of a set of exponentially small measure in the space of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Peter Bürgisser , Felipe Cucker , Pierre Lairez

We describe and analyze an algorithm for computing the homology (Betti numbers and torsion coefficients) of closed semialgebraic sets given by Boolean formulas without negations over lax polynomial inequalities. The algorithm works in weak…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Peter Bürgisser , Felipe Cucker , Josué Tonelli-Cueto

Topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing large-scale data. An abstract simplicial complex, in principle, can be built from data points, and by using tools from homology, topological features could be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Nhat A. Nghiem , Xianfeng David Gu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Persistent homology is a common technique in topological data analysis providing geometrical and topological information about the sample space. All this information, known as topological features, is summarized in persistence diagrams, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Asael Fabian Martínez

Extracting useful information from large data sets can be a daunting task. Topological methods for analyzing data sets provide a powerful technique for extracting such information. Persistent homology is a sophisticated tool for identifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Seth Lloyd , Silvano Garnerone , Paolo Zanardi

We introduce several new quantum algorithms for estimating homological invariants, specifically Betti numbers and persistent Betti numbers, of a simplicial complex given via a structured classical input. At the core of our algorithm lies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Nhat A. Nghiem

Persistent homology is a powerful mathematical tool that summarizes useful information about the shape of data allowing one to detect persistent topological features while one adjusts the resolution. However, the computation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Bernardo Ameneyro , Vasileios Maroulas , George Siopsis

We extend the methods developed in our earlier work to algorithmically compute the intersection cohomology Betti numbers of reductive varieties. These form a class of highly symmetric varieties that includes equivariant compactifications of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michel Brion , Roy Joshua

We describe a parallel polynomial time algorithm for computing the topological Betti numbers of a smooth complex projective variety $X$. It is the first single exponential time algorithm for computing the Betti numbers of a significant…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-13 Peter Scheiblechner

We present a distributed algorithm to compute the first homology of a simplicial complex. Such algorithms are very useful in topological analysis of sensor networks, such as its coverage properties. We employ spanning trees to compute a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Harish Chintakunta , Hamid Krim

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…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Chao Chen , Daniel Freedman

We develop a method for measuring and localizing homology classes. This involves two problems. First, we define relevant notions of size for both a homology class and a homology group basis, using ideas from relative homology. Second, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Daniel Freedman , Chao Chen

Developing an algorithm for computing the Betti numbers of semi-algebraic sets with singly exponential complexity has been a holy grail in algorithmic semi-algebraic geometry and only partial results are known. In this paper we consider the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Saugata Basu , Negin Karisani

Topological data analysis (TDA) has become an attractive area for the application of quantum computing. Recent advances have uncovered many interesting connections between the two fields. On one hand, complexity theoretic results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Nhat A. Nghiem

This article introduces an algorithm to compute the persistent homology of a filtered complex with various coefficient fields in a single matrix reduction. The algorithm is output-sensitive in the total number of distinct persistent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Clément Maria

Long lived topological features are distinguished from short lived ones (considered as topological noise) in simplicial complexes constructed from complex networks. A new topological invariant, persistent homology, is determined and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Danijela Horak , Slobodan Maletic , Milan Rajkovic

Topological invariants of a dataset, such as the number of holes that survive from one length scale to another (persistent Betti numbers) can be used to analyze and classify data in machine learning applications. We present an improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Sam McArdle , András Gilyén , Mario Berta

Persistent homology is one of the most active branches of Computational Algebraic Topology with applications in several contexts such as optical character recognition or analysis of point cloud data. In this paper, we report on the formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Jónathan Heras , Thierry Coquand , Anders Mörtberg , Vincent Siles

This is an extended abstract for a talk given at the mini-workshop "Cohomology rings and fundamental groups of hyperplane arrangements, wonderful compactifications, and real toric varieties", held in Oberwolfach, September 30-October 6,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Alexander I. Suciu
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