Incidence simplicial matrices formalized in Coq/SSReflect

  • Authors:
  • Jónathan Heras;María Poza;Maxime Dénès;Laurence Rideau

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of La Rioja;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of La Rioja;INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Méditerranée;INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Méditerranée

  • Venue:
  • MKM'11 Proceedings of the 18th Calculemus and 10th international conference on Intelligent computer mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Simplicial complexes are at the heart of Computational Algebraic Topology, since they give a concrete, combinatorial description of otherwise rather abstract objects which makes many important topological computations possible. The whole theory has many applications such as coding theory, robotics or digital image analysis. In this paper we present a formalization in the Coq theorem prover of simplicial complexes and their incidence matrices as well as the main theorem that gives meaning to the definition of homology groups and is a first step towards their computation.