The Topological Correctness of PL-Approximations of Isomanifolds

Authors Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Mathijs Wintraecken



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Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
  • Université Côte d'Azur, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Mathijs Wintraecken
  • IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, we acknowledge Siargey Kachanovich for discussions. We thank Herbert Edelsbrunner and all members of his group, all former and current members of the Datashape team (formerly known as Geometrica), and André Lieutier for encouragement. We thank the reviewers for their comments which improved the exposition.

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Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Mathijs Wintraecken. The Topological Correctness of PL-Approximations of Isomanifolds. In 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 164, pp. 20:1-20:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.20

Abstract

Isomanifolds are the generalization of isosurfaces to arbitrary dimension and codimension, i.e. manifolds defined as the zero set of some multivariate vector-valued smooth function f: ℝ^d → ℝ^(d-n). A natural (and efficient) way to approximate an isomanifold is to consider its Piecewise-Linear (PL) approximation based on a triangulation 𝒯 of the ambient space ℝ^d. In this paper, we give conditions under which the PL-approximation of an isomanifold is topologically equivalent to the isomanifold. The conditions are easy to satisfy in the sense that they can always be met by taking a sufficiently fine triangulation 𝒯. This contrasts with previous results on the triangulation of manifolds where, in arbitrary dimensions, delicate perturbations are needed to guarantee topological correctness, which leads to strong limitations in practice. We further give a bound on the Fréchet distance between the original isomanifold and its PL-approximation. Finally we show analogous results for the PL-approximation of an isomanifold with boundary.

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
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  • PL-approximations
  • isomanifolds
  • solution manifolds
  • topological correctness

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