Complexity and algorithms for Euler characteristic of simplicial complexes
We consider the problem of computing the Euler characteristic of an abstract simplicial complex given by its vertices and facets. We show that this problem is #P-complete and present two new practical algorithms for computing Euler characteristic. The two new algorithms are derived using combinatori...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de La Rioja (UR) |
| Repositorio: | RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.dialnet.es:doc/5bbc68b0b750603269e80daa |
| Acceso en línea: | https://investigacion.unirioja.es/documentos/5bbc68b0b750603269e80daa |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | #P-complete Algorithms Computational complexity Euler characteristic Monomial ideal Simplicial complex |
| Sumario: | We consider the problem of computing the Euler characteristic of an abstract simplicial complex given by its vertices and facets. We show that this problem is #P-complete and present two new practical algorithms for computing Euler characteristic. The two new algorithms are derived using combinatorial commutative algebra and we also give a second description of them that requires no algebra. We present experiments showing that the two new algorithms can be implemented to be faster than previous Euler characteristic implementations by a large margin. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. |
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