Computing Betti numbers via combinatorial laplacians

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Volumn Part F129452, Issue , 1996, Pages 386-391

  Friedman, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

BETTI NUMBERS; EIGENVALUES; LAPLACIANS; POWER METHOD; RUNNING TIME; SIMPLICIAL COMPLEX; STORAGE SPACES;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BETTI NUMBERS; CHESSBOARD COMPLEXES; HOMOLOGY; SIMPLICIAL COMPLEXES; STORAGE REGISTERS;

EID: 0029717336     PISSN: 07378017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/237814.237985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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