Minimum spanning acycle and lifetime of persistent homology in the Linial–Meshulam process

This paper studies a higher dimensional generalization of Frieze's ζ(3) -limit theorem on the d-Linial–Meshulam process. First, we define spanning acycles as a higher dimensional analogue of spanning trees, and connect its minimum weight to persistent homology. Then, our main result shows that the expected weight of the minimum spanning acycle behaves in Θ (n^d−1).