The energy of a simplicial complex

07/07/2019
by   Oliver Knill, et al.
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A finite abstract simplicial complex G defines a matrix L, where L(x,y)=1 if two simplicies x,y in G intersect and where L(x,y)=0 if they don't. This matrix is always unimodular so that the inverse g of L has integer entries g(x,y). In analogy to Laplacians on Euclidean spaces, these Green function entries define a potential energy between two simplices x,y. We prove that the total energy summing all matrix elements g(x,y) is equal to the Euler characteristic X(G) of G and that the number of positive minus the number of negative eigenvalues of L is equal to X(G).

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