Universal Distances for Extended Persistence

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Main Authors: Bauer, Ulrich, Botnan, Magnus Bakke, Fluhr, Benedikt
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author Bauer, Ulrich
Botnan, Magnus Bakke
Fluhr, Benedikt
author_facet Bauer, Ulrich
Botnan, Magnus Bakke
Fluhr, Benedikt
contents The extended persistence diagram is an invariant of piecewise linear functions, which is known to be stable under perturbations of functions with respect to the bottleneck distance as introduced by Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner, and Harer. We address the question of universality, which asks for the largest possible stable distance on extended persistence diagrams, showing that a more discriminative variant of the bottleneck distance is universal. Our result applies more generally to settings where persistence diagrams are considered only up to a certain degree. We achieve our results by establishing a functorial construction and several characteristic properties of relative interlevel set homology, which mirror the classical Eilenberg--Steenrod axioms. Finally, we contrast the bottleneck distance with the interleaving distance of sheaves on the real line by showing that the latter is not intrinsic, let alone universal. This particular result has the further implication that the interleaving distance of Reeb graphs is not intrinsic either.
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spellingShingle Universal Distances for Extended Persistence
Bauer, Ulrich
Botnan, Magnus Bakke
Fluhr, Benedikt
Algebraic Topology
Computational Geometry
55N31 (Primary), 62R40 (Secondary)
The extended persistence diagram is an invariant of piecewise linear functions, which is known to be stable under perturbations of functions with respect to the bottleneck distance as introduced by Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner, and Harer. We address the question of universality, which asks for the largest possible stable distance on extended persistence diagrams, showing that a more discriminative variant of the bottleneck distance is universal. Our result applies more generally to settings where persistence diagrams are considered only up to a certain degree. We achieve our results by establishing a functorial construction and several characteristic properties of relative interlevel set homology, which mirror the classical Eilenberg--Steenrod axioms. Finally, we contrast the bottleneck distance with the interleaving distance of sheaves on the real line by showing that the latter is not intrinsic, let alone universal. This particular result has the further implication that the interleaving distance of Reeb graphs is not intrinsic either.
title Universal Distances for Extended Persistence
topic Algebraic Topology
Computational Geometry
55N31 (Primary), 62R40 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01834