Computability of Finite Simplicial Complexes

Authors Djamel Eddine Amir, Mathieu Hoyrup



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Djamel Eddine Amir
  • Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, F-54000 Nancy, France
Mathieu Hoyrup
  • Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, F-54000 Nancy, France

Acknowledgements

We want to thank Guilhem Gamard and Emmanuel Jeandel for interesting discussions and comments about this work.

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Djamel Eddine Amir and Mathieu Hoyrup. Computability of Finite Simplicial Complexes. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 111:1-111:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.111

Abstract

The topological properties of a set have a strong impact on its computability properties. A striking illustration of this idea is given by spheres and closed manifolds: if a set X is homeomorphic to a sphere or a closed manifold, then any algorithm that semicomputes X in some sense can be converted into an algorithm that fully computes X. In other words, the topological properties of X enable one to derive full information about X from partial information about X. In that case, we say that X has computable type. Those results have been obtained by Miller, Iljazović, Sušić and others in the recent years. A similar notion of computable type was also defined for pairs (X,A) in order to cover more spaces, such as compact manifolds with boundary and finite graphs with endpoints. We investigate the higher dimensional analog of graphs, namely the pairs (X,A) where X is a finite simplicial complex and A is a subcomplex of X. We give two topological characterizations of the pairs having computable type. The first one uses a global property of the pair, that we call the ε-surjection property. The second one uses a local property of neighborhoods of vertices, called the surjection property. We give a further characterization for 2-dimensional simplicial complexes, by identifying which local neighborhoods have the surjection property. Using these characterizations, we give non-trivial applications to two famous sets: we prove that the dunce hat does not have computable type whereas Bing’s house does. Important concepts from topology, such as absolute neighborhood retracts and topological cones, play a key role in our proofs.

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  • Theory of computation → Computability
  • Mathematics of computing → Point-set topology
  • Mathematics of computing → Algebraic topology
Keywords
  • Computable Type
  • Simplicial Complex
  • Surjection Property
  • Topological Cone
  • Absolute Neighborhood Retract
  • Dunce Hat
  • Bing’s House

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