Presentation of the Fundamental Group in Digital Surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Rémy Malgouyres

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DCGI '99 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

As its analogue in the continuous framework, the digital fundamental group represents a major information on the topology of discrete objects. However, the fundamental group is an abstract information and cannot directly be encoded in a computer using its definition. A classical mathematical way to encode a discrete group is to find a presentation of this group. In this paper, we define a presentation for the fundamental group of any subset of a digital surface. This presentation can be computed by an efficient algorithm.