Betti number signatures of homogeneous Poisson point processes

Details Betti number signatures of homogeneous Poisson point processes Betti number signatures of homogeneous Poisson point processes

2006-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0609061v1

Physics

Mathematical Physics

Submitted to PRE. 11 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.061107

The Betti numbers are fundamental topological quantities that describe the k-dimensional connectivity of an object: B_0 is the number of connected components and B_k effectively counts the number of k-dimensional holes. Although they are appealing natural descriptors of shape, the higher-order Betti numbers are more difficult to compute than other measures and so have not previously been studied per se in the context of stochastic geometry or statistical physics. As a mathematically tractable model, we consider the expected Betti numbers per unit volume of Poisson-centred spheres with radius alpha. We present results from simulations and derive analytic expressions for the low intensity, small radius limits of Betti numbers in one, two, and three dimensions. The algorithms and analysis depend on alpha-shapes, a construction from computational geometry that deserves to be more widely known in the physics community.

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