Betti number
Roughly, the number of k-dimensional holes on a topological surface
Roughly, the number of k-dimensional holes on a topological surface
In algebraic topology, the Betti numbers are used to distinguish topological spaces based on the connectivity of n-dimensional simplicial complexes. For the most reasonable finite-dimensional spaces (such as compact manifolds, finite simplicial complexes or CW complexes), the sequence of Betti numbers is 0 from some point onward (Betti numbers vanish above the dimension of a space), and they are all finite. The nth Betti number represents the rank of the nth homology group, denoted Hn, which tells us the maximum number of cuts that can be made before separating a surface into two pieces or 0-cycles, 1-cycles, etc. For example, if H n ( X ) ≅ 0 {\displaystyle H_{n}(X)\cong 0} then b n ( X ) = 0 {\displaystyle b_{n}(X)=0...
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