An incremental algorithm for Betti numbers of simplicial complexes

  • Authors:
  • Cecil Jose A. Delfinado;Herbert Edelsbrunner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SCG '93 Proceedings of the ninth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A general and direct method for computing the betti numbers of thehomology groups of a finite simplicial complex is given. Forsubcomplexes of a triangulation of S3 this method has implementations that run in timeO(n&dgr;(n))and O(n), wheren is the number of simplices in thetriangulation. If applied to the family of &dgr;-shapes of a finitepoint set in R3 it takes timeO(n&dgr;(n))to compute the betti numbers of all &dgr;-shapes.