Property testing and expansion in cubical complexes

Abstract

We consider expansion and property testing in the language of incidence geometry, covering both simplicial and cubical complexes in any dimension. We develop a general method for passing from an explicit description of the cohomology group, which need not be trivial, to a testability proof with linear ratio between errors. The method is demonstrated by testing functions on 2-cells in cubical complexes to be induced from the edges.

25 pages; revised version; accepted to Discrete and Computational Geometry