A Representation for Abstract Simplicial Complexes: An Analysis and a Comparison

Abstract

Abstract. Abstract simplicial complexes are used in many application contexts to represent multi-dimensional, possibly non-manifold and nonuniformly dimensional, geometric objects. In this paper we introduce a new general yet compact data structure for representing simplicial complexes, which is based on a decomposition approach that we have presented in our previous work [3]. We compare our data structure with the existing ones and we discuss in which respect it performs better than others.