The simplex tree: an efficient data structure for general simplicial complexes

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Daniel Boissonnat;Clément Maria

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France;INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France

  • Venue:
  • ESA'12 Proceedings of the 20th Annual European conference on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new data structure, called simplex tree, to represent abstract simplicial complexes of any dimension. All faces of the simplicial complex are explicitly stored in a trie whose nodes are in bijection with the faces of the complex. This data structure allows to efficiently implement a large range of basic operations on simplicial complexes. We provide theoretical complexity analysis as well as detailed experimental results. We more specifically study Rips and witness complexes.