Homological Percolation and the Euler Characteristic

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.101.032304MaRDI QIDQ6327701zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Omer Bobrowski, Primoz Skraba

Publication date 22 October 2019

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVE.101.032304

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Percolation (82B43)

Abstract: In this paper we study the connection between the phenomenon of homological percolation (the formation of "giant" cycles in persistent homology), and the zeros of the expected Euler characteristic curve. We perform an experimental study that covers four different models: site-percolation on the cubical and permutahedral lattices, the Poisson-Boolean model, and Gaussian random fields. All the models are generated on the flat torus $T^d$, for $d=2,3,4$. The simulation results strongly indicate that the zeros of the expected Euler characteristic curve approximate the critical values for homological-percolation. Our results also provide some insight about the approximation error. Further study of this connection could have powerful implications both in the study of percolation theory, and in the field of Topological Data Analysis.

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