Harmonic representatives in homology over arbitrary fields

DOI10.1007/S41468-023-00117-WzbMATH Open1523.55019arXiv2110.10885OpenAlexW3205519041MaRDI QIDQ6074060FDOQ6074060

Authors: Michael J. Catanzaro, Brantley Vose 

Publication date: 18 September 2023

Published in: Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a notion of harmonic chain for chain complexes over fields of positive characteristic. A list of conditions for when a Hodge decomposition theorem holds in this setting is given and we apply this theory to finite CW complexes. An explicit construction of the harmonic chain within a homology class is described when applicable. We show how the coefficients of usual discrete harmonic chains due to Eckmann can be reduced to localizations of the integers, allowing us to compare classical harmonicity with the notion introduced here. We focus on applications throughout, including CW decompositions of orientable surfaces and examples of spaces arising from sampled data sets.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10885

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Chain complexes in algebraic topology (55U15) PL-topology (57Qxx)

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