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Cup Product Persistence and Its Efficient Computation

Authors: Tamal K. Dey and Abhishek Rathod

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)


Abstract
It is well-known that the cohomology ring has a richer structure than homology groups. However, until recently, the use of cohomology in persistence setting has been limited to speeding up of barcode computations. Some of the recently introduced invariants, namely, persistent cup-length, persistent cup modules and persistent Steenrod modules, to some extent, fill this gap. When added to the standard persistence barcode, they lead to invariants that are more discriminative than the standard persistence barcode. In this work, we devise an O(d n⁴) algorithm for computing the persistent k-cup modules for all k ∈ {2, … , d}, where d denotes the dimension of the filtered complex, and n denotes its size. Moreover, we note that since the persistent cup length can be obtained as a byproduct of our computations, this leads to a faster algorithm for computing it for d ≥ 3. Finally, we introduce a new stable invariant called partition modules of cup product that is more discriminative than persistent cup modules and devise an O(c(d)n⁴) algorithm for computing it, where c(d) is subexponential in d.

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Tamal K. Dey and Abhishek Rathod. Cup Product Persistence and Its Efficient Computation. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 50:1-50:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{dey_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.50,
  author =	{Dey, Tamal K. and Rathod, Abhishek},
  title =	{{Cup Product Persistence and Its Efficient Computation}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-199958},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: Persistent cohomology, cup product, image persistence, persistent cup module}
}
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On Computing Homological Hitting Sets

Authors: Ulrich Bauer, Abhishek Rathod, and Meirav Zehavi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 251, 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)


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Cut problems form one of the most fundamental classes of problems in algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we initiate the algorithmic study of a high-dimensional cut problem. The problem we study, namely, Homological Hitting Set (HHS), is defined as follows: Given a nontrivial r-cycle z in a simplicial complex, find a set 𝒮 of r-dimensional simplices of minimum cardinality so that 𝒮 meets every cycle homologous to z. Our first result is that HHS admits a polynomial-time solution on triangulations of closed surfaces. Interestingly, the minimal solution is given in terms of the cocycles of the surface. Next, we provide an example of a 2-complex for which the (unique) minimal hitting set is not a cocycle. Furthermore, for general complexes, we show that HHS is W[1]-hard with respect to the solution size p. In contrast, on the positive side, we show that HHS admits an FPT algorithm with respect to p+Δ, where Δ is the maximum degree of the Hasse graph of the complex 𝖪.

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Ulrich Bauer, Abhishek Rathod, and Meirav Zehavi. On Computing Homological Hitting Sets. In 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 251, pp. 13:1-13:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{bauer_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.13,
  author =	{Bauer, Ulrich and Rathod, Abhishek and Zehavi, Meirav},
  title =	{{On Computing Homological Hitting Sets}},
  booktitle =	{14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-263-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{251},
  editor =	{Tauman Kalai, Yael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-175169},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithmic topology, Cut problems, Surfaces, Parameterized complexity}
}
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Fast Algorithms for Minimum Cycle Basis and Minimum Homology Basis

Authors: Abhishek Rathod

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 164, 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)


Abstract
We study the problem of finding a minimum homology basis, that is, a shortest set of cycles that generates the 1-dimensional homology classes with ℤ₂ coefficients in a given simplicial complex K. This problem has been extensively studied in the last few years. For general complexes, the current best deterministic algorithm, by Dey et al. [Dey et al., 2018], runs in O(N^ω + N² g) time, where N denotes the number of simplices in K, g denotes the rank of the 1-homology group of K, and ω denotes the exponent of matrix multiplication. In this paper, we present two conceptually simple randomized algorithms that compute a minimum homology basis of a general simplicial complex K. The first algorithm runs in Õ(m^ω) time, where m denotes the number of edges in K, whereas the second algorithm runs in O(m^ω + N m^{ω-1}) time. We also study the problem of finding a minimum cycle basis in an undirected graph G with n vertices and m edges. The best known algorithm for this problem runs in O(m^ω) time. Our algorithm, which has a simpler high-level description, but is slightly more expensive, runs in Õ(m^ω) time.

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Abhishek Rathod. Fast Algorithms for Minimum Cycle Basis and Minimum Homology Basis. In 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 164, pp. 64:1-64:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{rathod:LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.64,
  author =	{Rathod, Abhishek},
  title =	{{Fast Algorithms for Minimum Cycle Basis and Minimum Homology Basis}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)},
  pages =	{64:1--64:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-143-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{164},
  editor =	{Cabello, Sergio and Chen, Danny Z.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.64},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-122223},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.64},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational topology, Minimum homology basis, Minimum cycle basis, Simplicial complexes, Matrix computations}
}
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Parametrized Complexity of Expansion Height

Authors: Ulrich Bauer, Abhishek Rathod, and Jonathan Spreer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 144, 27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)


Abstract
Deciding whether two simplicial complexes are homotopy equivalent is a fundamental problem in topology, which is famously undecidable. There exists a combinatorial refinement of this concept, called simple-homotopy equivalence: two simplicial complexes are of the same simple-homotopy type if they can be transformed into each other by a sequence of two basic homotopy equivalences, an elementary collapse and its inverse, an elementary expansion. In this article we consider the following related problem: given a 2-dimensional simplicial complex, is there a simple-homotopy equivalence to a 1-dimensional simplicial complex using at most p expansions? We show that the problem, which we call the erasability expansion height, is W[P]-complete in the natural parameter p.

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Ulrich Bauer, Abhishek Rathod, and Jonathan Spreer. Parametrized Complexity of Expansion Height. In 27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 144, pp. 13:1-13:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{bauer_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2019.13,
  author =	{Bauer, Ulrich and Rathod, Abhishek and Spreer, Jonathan},
  title =	{{Parametrized Complexity of Expansion Height}},
  booktitle =	{27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-124-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{144},
  editor =	{Bender, Michael A. and Svensson, Ola and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-111346},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Simple-homotopy theory, simple-homotopy type, parametrized complexity theory, simplicial complexes, (modified) dunce hat}
}