/* This file is part of the Gudhi Library. The Gudhi library
* (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++
* library for computational topology.
*
* Author(s): Pawel Dlotko
*
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#ifndef DOC_GUDHI_CUBICAL_COMPLEX_COMPLEX_H_
#define DOC_GUDHI_CUBICAL_COMPLEX_COMPLEX_H_
namespace Gudhi {
namespace Cubical_complex {
/** \defgroup cubical_complex Cubical complex
*
* \author Pawel Dlotko
*
* @{
*
* Bitmap_cubical_complex is an example of a structured complex useful in computational mathematics (specially rigorous
* numerics) and image analysis. The presented implementation of cubical complexes is based on the following
* definition.
*
* An elementary interval is an interval of a form \f$ [n,n+1] \f$, or \f$[n,n]\f$, for \f$ n \in \mathcal{Z}
* \f$. The first one is called non-degenerate, while the second one is \a degenerate interval. A
* boundary of a elementary interval is a chain \f$\partial [n,n+1] = [n+1,n+1]-[n,n] \f$ in case of
* non-degenerated elementary interval and \f$\partial [n,n] = 0 \f$ in case of degenerate elementary interval. An
* elementary cube \f$ C \f$ is a product of elementary intervals, \f$C=I_1 \times \ldots \times I_n\f$.
* Embedding dimension of a cube is n, the number of elementary intervals (degenerate or not) in the product.
* A dimension of a cube \f$C=I_1 \times ... \times I_n\f$ is the number of non degenerate elementary
* intervals in the product. A boundary of a cube \f$C=I_1 \times \ldots \times I_n\f$ is a chain obtained
* in the following way:
* \f[\partial C = (\partial I_1 \times \ldots \times I_n) + (I_1 \times \partial I_2 \times \ldots \times I_n) +
* \ldots + (I_1 \times I_2 \times \ldots \times \partial I_n).\f]
* A cubical complex \f$\mathcal{K}\f$ is a collection of cubes closed under operation of taking boundary
* (i.e. boundary of every cube from the collection is in the collection). A cube \f$C\f$ in cubical complex
* \f$\mathcal{K}\f$ is maximal if it is not in a boundary of any other cube in \f$\mathcal{K}\f$. A \a
* support of a cube \f$C\f$ is the set in \f$\mathbb{R}^n\f$ occupied by \f$C\f$ (\f$n\f$ is the embedding dimension
* of \f$C\f$).
*
* Cubes may be equipped with a filtration values in which case we have filtered cubical complex. All the cubical
* complexes considered in this implementation are filtered cubical complexes (although, the range of a filtration may
* be a set of two elements).
*
* For further details and theory of cubical complexes, please consult \cite kaczynski2004computational as well as the
* following paper \cite peikert2012topological .
*
* \section datastructure Data structure.
*
* The implementation of Cubical complex provides a representation of complexes that occupy a rectangular region in
* \f$\mathbb{R}^n\f$. This extra assumption allows for a memory efficient way of storing cubical complexes in a form
* of so called bitmaps. Let \f$R = [b_1,e_1] \times \ldots \times [b_n,e_n]\f$, for \f$b_1,...b_n,e_1,...,e_n \in
* \mathbb{Z}\f$, \f$b_i \leq d_i\f$ be the considered rectangular region and let \f$\mathcal{K}\f$ be a filtered
* cubical complex having the rectangle \f$R\f$ as its support. Note that the structure of the coordinate system gives
* a way a lexicographical ordering of cells of \f$\mathcal{K}\f$. This ordering is a base of the presented
* bitmap-based implementation. In this implementation, the whole cubical complex is stored as a vector of the values
* of filtration. This, together with dimension of \f$\mathcal{K}\f$ and the sizes of \f$\mathcal{K}\f$ in all
* directions, allows to determine, dimension, neighborhood, boundary and coboundary of every cube \f$C \in
* \mathcal{K}\f$.
*
* \image html "Cubical_complex_representation.png" Cubical complex.
*
* Note that the cubical complex in the figure above is, in a natural way, a product of one dimensional cubical
* complexes in \f$\mathbb{R}\f$. The number of all cubes in each direction is equal \f$2n+1\f$, where \f$n\f$ is the
* number of maximal cubes in the considered direction. Let us consider a cube at the position \f$k\f$ in the bitmap.
* Knowing the sizes of the bitmap, by a series of modulo operation, we can determine which elementary intervals are
* present in the product that gives the cube \f$C\f$. In a similar way, we can compute boundary and the coboundary of
* each cube. Further details can be found in the literature.
*
* \section inputformat Input Format.
*
* In the current implantation, filtration is given at the maximal cubes, and it is then extended by the lower star
* filtration to all cubes. There are a number of constructors that can be used to construct cubical complex by users
* who want to use the code directly. They can be found in the \a Bitmap_cubical_complex class.
* Currently one input from a text file is used. It uses a format used already in Perseus software
* (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vnanda/perseus/) by Vidit Nanda.
* Below we are providing a description of the format. The first line contains a number d begin the dimension of the
* bitmap (2 in the example below). Next d lines are the numbers of top dimensional cubes in each dimensions (3 and 3
* in the example below). Next, in lexicographical order, the filtration of top dimensional cubes is given (1 4 6 8
* 20 4 7 6 5 in the example below).
*
*
* \image html "exampleBitmap.png" "Example of a input data."
*
* The input file for the following complex is:
* \verbatim
2
3
3
1
4
6
8
20
4
7
6
5
\endverbatim
* \section PeriodicBoundaryConditions Periodic boundary conditions
* Often one would like to impose periodic boundary conditions to the cubical complex. Let \f$ I_1\times ... \times
* I_n \f$ be a box that is decomposed with a cubical complex \f$ \mathcal{K} \f$. Imposing periodic boundary
* conditions in the direction i, means that the left and the right side of a complex \f$ \mathcal{K} \f$ are
* considered the same. In particular, if for a bitmap \f$ \mathcal{K} \f$ periodic boundary conditions are imposed
* in all directions, then complex \f$ \mathcal{K} \f$ became n-dimensional torus. One can use various constructors
* from the file Bitmap_cubical_complex_periodic_boundary_conditions_base.h to construct cubical complex with periodic
* boundary conditions. One can also use Perseus style input files. To indicate periodic boundary conditions in a
* given direction, then number of top dimensional cells in this direction have to be multiplied by -1. For instance:
*\verbatim
2
-3
3
1
4
6
8
20
4
7
6
5
\endverbatim
* Indicate that we have imposed periodic boundary conditions in the direction x, but not in the direction y.
* \section BitmapExamples Examples
* End user programs are available in example/Bitmap_cubical_complex folder.
*/
/** @} */ // end defgroup cubical_complex
} // namespace Cubical_complex
} // namespace Gudhi
#endif // DOC_GUDHI_CUBICAL_COMPLEX_COMPLEX_H_