Incremental Sheaf Cohomology on Cellular Complexes: O(1)-in-n Lazy Edit Processing under Bounded Local Geometry
arXiv:2606.04227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an algorithmic framework for incremental maintenance of first sheaf cohomology $H^1(X; \mathcal{F})$ on dynamically evolving 1-dimensional cellular complexes equipped with finite-dimensional cellular sheaves. The classical computation of $H^1$ via factorization of the coboundary matrix requires $O(n^3)$ time; when the complex evolves with a stream of $m$ edits, full recomputation after each edit costs $O(mn^3)$. Under a bounded local geometry assumption -- bounded cell size $v_{\max}$, bounded stalk dimension $d$, and bounded nerve d
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