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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 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

We describe and analyze a numerical algorithm for computing the homology (Betti numbers and torsion coefficients) of real projective varieties. Here numerical means that the algorithm is numerically stable (in a sense to be made precise).…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Felipe Cucker , Teresa Krick , Michael Shub

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 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

We give an algorithm with singly exponential complexity for computing the barcodes up to dimension $\ell$ (for any fixed $\ell \geq 0$) of the filtration of a given semi-algebraic set by the sub-level sets of a given polynomial. Our…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Saugata Basu , Negin Karisani

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

In this paper we describe a singly exponential algorithm for computing the first Betti number of a given semi-algebraic set. Singly exponential algorithms for computing the zero-th Betti number, and the Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic, were…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Saugata Basu , Richard Pollack , Marie-Francoise Roy

In this paper we describe an algorithm that takes as input a description of a semi-algebraic set $S \subset \R^k$, defined by a Boolean formula with atoms of the form $P > 0, P < 0, P=0$ for $P \in {\mathcal P} \subset \R[X_1,...,X_k],$ and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Saugata Basu

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

Looking for an efficient algorithm for the computation of the homology groups of an algebraic set or even a semi-algebraic set is an important problem in the effective real algebraic geometry. Recently, Peter Burgisser, Felipe Cucker and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Han Jiadong

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

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

We prove a complexity lower bound on deciding membership in a semialgebraic set for arithmetic networks in terms of the sum of Betti numbers with respect to "ordinary" (singular) homology. This result complements a similar lower bound by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Andrei Gabrielov , Nicolai Vorobjov

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

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

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

The central problem in computational algebraic topology is the computation of the homotopy groups of a given space, represented as a simplicial set. Algorithms have been found which achieve this, but the running times depend on the size of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Preston Cranford , Peter Rowley

The Betti tables of a multigraded module encode the grades at which there is an algebraic change in the module. Multigraded modules show up in many areas of pure and applied mathematics, and in particular in topological data analysis, where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuan Luo , Dmitriy Morozov , Luis Scoccola

We provide an algorithm for computing an effective basis of homology of elliptic surfaces over the complex projective line on which integration of periods can be carried out. This allows the heuristic recovery of several algebraic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Eric Pichon-Pharabod
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