Building Efficient and Compact Data Structures for Simplicial Complexes

Abstract

The Simplex Tree (ST) is a recently introduced data structure that can represent abstract simplicial complexes of any dimension and allows efficient implementation of a large range of basic operations on simplicial complexes. In this paper, we show how to optimally compress the ST while retaining its functionalities. In addition, we propose two new data structures called the Maximal Simplex Tree and the Simplex Array List. We analyze the compressed ST, the Maximal Simplex Tree, and the Simplex Array List under various settings.