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Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Peter T. Kim

In this paper, we study the persistent homology of the offset filtration of algebraic varieties. We prove the algebraicity of two quantities central to the computation of persistent homology. Moreover, we connect persistent homology and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Emil Horobet , Madeleine Weinstein

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

A graph is $k$-degenerate if any induced subgraph has a vertex of degree at most $k$. In this paper we prove new algorithms for cliques and similar structures for these graphs. We design linear time Fixed-Parameter Tractable algorithms for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 George Manoussakis

Convection is a well-studied topic in fluid dynamics, yet it is less understood in the context of networks flows. Here, we incorporate techniques from topological data analysis (namely, persistent homology) to automate the detection and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Minh Quang Le , Dane Taylor

Vietoris-Rips metric thickenings have previously been proposed as an alternate approach to understanding Vietoris-Rips simplicial complexes and their persistent homology. Recent work has shown that for totally bounded metric spaces,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Michael Moy

We consider the problem of space-efficiently estimating the number of simplices in a hypergraph stream. This is the most natural hypergraph generalization of the highly-studied problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Amit Chakrabarti , Themistoklis Haris

Hypergraphs are mathematical models for many problems in data sciences. In recent decades, the topological properties of hypergraphs have been studied and various kinds of (co)homologies have been constructed (cf. [3, 4, 12]). In this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Stephane Bressan , Jingyan Li , Shiquan Ren , Jie Wu

In this paper we study the properties of the homology of different geometric filtered complexes (such as Vietoris-Rips, Cech and witness complexes) built on top of precompact spaces. Using recent developments in the theory of topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Frederic Chazal , Vin de Silva , Steve Oudot

We show that the existence of a homomorphism from an $n$-vertex graph $G$ to an $h$-vertex graph $H$ can be decided in time $2^{O(n)}h^{O(1)}$ and polynomial space if $H$ comes from a family of graphs that excludes a topological minor. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Clément Carbonnel

Clearing is a simple but effective optimization for the standard algorithm of persistent homology (PH), which dramatically improves the speed and scalability of PH computations for Vietoris--Rips filtrations. Due to the quick growth of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Ulrich Bauer , Fabian Lenzen , Michael Lesnick

We study the problem of finding a minimum homology basis, that is, a lightest set of cycles that generates the $1$-dimensional homology classes with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ coefficients in a given simplicial complex $K$. This problem has been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Amritendu Dhar , Vijay Natarajan , Abhishek Rathod

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

In a seminal paper on finding large matchings in sparse random graphs, Karp and Sipser proposed two algorithms for this task. The second algorithm has been intensely studied, but due to technical difficulties, the first algorithm has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze

In data clustering, it is often desirable to find not just a single partition into clusters but a sequence of partitions that describes the data at different scales (or levels of coarseness). A natural problem then is to analyse and compare…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Juni Schindler , Mauricio Barahona

In the applied algebraic topology community, the persistent homology induced by the Vietoris-Rips simplicial filtration is a standard method for capturing topological information from metric spaces. In this paper, we consider a different,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan

Persistent homology is a methodology central to topological data analysis that extracts and summarizes the topological features within a dataset as a persistence diagram; it has recently gained much popularity from its myriad successful…

Applications · Statistics 2023-11-28 Yueqi Cao , Prudence Leung , Anthea Monod

In the theory of persistent homology, a well known duality relates the barcodes of the absolute homology and relative cohomology of a one-parameter simplicial filtration. Motivated by the problem of computing free presentations of the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Ulrich Bauer , Fabian Lenzen , Michael Lesnick

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

This article studies the robust version of persistent homology based on trimming methodology to capture the geometric feature through support of the data in presence of outliers. Precisely speaking, the proposed methodology works when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 Tuhin Subhra Mahato , Subhra Sankar Dhar