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How much smaller is the Čech complex than the Vietoris-Rips complex?

The Čech complex is a subcomplex of the Vietoris-Rips complex. The V-R complex includes as a simplex a set of points with pairwise distances at most $\epsilon$, whereas the Č complex includes as a ...
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Counting homologically non-trivial and trivial cycles in $n \times n$ square lattice torus of a given length $l \geq n$

This should be a fairly standard question but I can't really seem to find a reference. Consider an $n \times n$ square lattice torus $\mathbb T$. Given a length $l \geq n$, what is the number of ...
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