Betti numbers of random manifolds

DOI10.4310/HHA.2008.V10.N1.A8MaRDI QIDQ2478201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Farber, T. Kappeler

Publication date 17 March 2008

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703929, http://intlpress.com/HHA/v10/n1/a8/

zbMATH Keywords

average Betti numberplanar linkagepolygon space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: We study mathematical expectations of Betti numbers of configuration spaces of planar linkages, viewing the lengths of the bars of the linkage as random variables. Our main result gives an explicit asymptotic formulae for these mathematical expectations for two distinct probability measures describing the statistics of the length vectors when the number of links tends to infinity. In the proof we use a combination of geometric and analytic tools. The average Betti numbers are expressed in terms of volumes of intersections of a simplex with certain half-spaces.

Review text

The authors compute the average \(p\)-th Betti number \(b_{p}(n,\mu)\) of an ensemble of \(n\) point linkages in the plane, for certain measures \(\mu\) on the sets of lengths. There are 2 measures in question here. One is Lebesgue measure on the simplex of lengths summing to \(1\) and the other is Lebesgue measure on the cube of lengths between \(0\) and \(1\). The average in both cases satisfies \(| b_{p}(n,\mu) - \binom {n-1}p| < Ca^n\) for constants \(C > 0\), \(0 < a < 1\).

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