Cup products on polyhedral approximations of 3D digital images

Let I be a 3D digital image, and let Q(I) be the associated cubical complex. In this paper we show how to simplify the combinatorial structure of Q(I) and obtain a homeomorphic cellular complex P(I) with fewer cells. We introduce formulas for a diagonal approximation on a general polygon and use it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: González Díaz, Rocío, Lamar León, Javier, Umble, Ronald
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/30805
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/30805
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21073-0_12
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cellular complex
cohomology
cup product
diagonal approximation
digital image
polyhedron
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Sumario:Let I be a 3D digital image, and let Q(I) be the associated cubical complex. In this paper we show how to simplify the combinatorial structure of Q(I) and obtain a homeomorphic cellular complex P(I) with fewer cells. We introduce formulas for a diagonal approximation on a general polygon and use it to compute cup products on the cohomology H *(P(I)). The cup product encodes important geometrical information not captured by the cohomology groups. Consequently, the ring structure of H *(P(I)) is a finer topological invariant. The algorithm proposed here can be applied to compute cup products on any polyhedral approximation of an object embedded in 3-space.