Computing Linking Numbers of a Filtration

  • Authors:
  • Herbert Edelsbrunner;Afra Zomorodian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WABI '01 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We develop fast algorithms for computing the linking number of a simplicial complex within a filtration. We give experimental results in applying our work toward the detection of non-trivial tangling in biomolecules, modeled as alpha complexes.