Hypernetworks: From Posets to Geometry

Publication date 16 January 2021

Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) Applications of differential geometry to data and computer science (53Z50) Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Discrete Morse theory and related ideas in manifold topology (57Q70)

Abstract: We show that hypernetworks can be regarded as posets which, in their turn, have a natural interpretation as simplicial complexes and, as such, are endowed with an intrinsic notion of curvature, namely the Forman Ricci curvature, that strongly correlates with the Euler characteristic of the simplicial complex. This approach, inspired by the work of E. Bloch, allows us to canonically associate a simplicial complex structure to a hypernetwork, directed or undirected. In particular, this greatly simplifying the geometric Persistent Homology method we previously proposed.

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