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A Fundamental Group for Digital Images

Algebraic Topology 2019-06-17 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We define a fundamental group for digital images. Namely, we construct a functor from digital images to groups, which closely resembles the ordinary fundamental group from algebraic topology. Our construction differs in several basic ways from previously established versions of a fundamental group in the digital setting. Our development gives a prominent role to subdivision of digital images. We show that our fundamental group is preserved by subdivision.

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@article{arxiv.1906.05976,
  title  = {A Fundamental Group for Digital Images},
  author = {Gregory Lupton and John Oprea and Nicholas Scoville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05976},
  year   = {2019}
}

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47 pages, 2 figures

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