The Persistent Topology of Optimal Transport Based Metric Thickenings

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Auteurs principaux: Adams, Henry, Mémoli, Facundo, Moy, Michael, Wang, Qingsong
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author Adams, Henry
Mémoli, Facundo
Moy, Michael
Wang, Qingsong
author_facet Adams, Henry
Mémoli, Facundo
Moy, Michael
Wang, Qingsong
contents A metric thickening of a given metric space $X$ is any metric space admitting an isometric embedding of $X$. Thickenings have found use in applications of topology to data analysis, where one may approximate the shape of a dataset via the persistent homology of an increasing sequence of spaces. We introduce two new families of metric thickenings, the $p$-Vietoris-Rips and $p$-Čech metric thickenings for all $1\le p\le \infty$, which include all measures on $X$ whose $p$-diameter or $p$-radius is bounded from above, equipped with an optimal transport metric. The $p$-diameter (resp. $p$-radius) of a measure is a certain $\ell_p$ relaxation of the usual notion of diameter (resp. radius) of a subset of a metric space. These families recover the previously studied Vietoris-Rips and Čech metric thickenings when $p=\infty$. As our main contribution, we prove a stability theorem for the persistent homology of $p$-Vietoris-Rips and $p$-Čech metric thickenings, which is novel even in the case $p=\infty$. In the specific case $p=2$, we prove a Hausmann-type theorem for thickenings of manifolds, and we derive the complete list of homotopy types of the $2$-Vietoris-Rips thickenings of the $n$-sphere as the scale increases.
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spellingShingle The Persistent Topology of Optimal Transport Based Metric Thickenings
Adams, Henry
Mémoli, Facundo
Moy, Michael
Wang, Qingsong
Metric Geometry
Algebraic Topology
55N31, 51F99, 53C23
A metric thickening of a given metric space $X$ is any metric space admitting an isometric embedding of $X$. Thickenings have found use in applications of topology to data analysis, where one may approximate the shape of a dataset via the persistent homology of an increasing sequence of spaces. We introduce two new families of metric thickenings, the $p$-Vietoris-Rips and $p$-Čech metric thickenings for all $1\le p\le \infty$, which include all measures on $X$ whose $p$-diameter or $p$-radius is bounded from above, equipped with an optimal transport metric. The $p$-diameter (resp. $p$-radius) of a measure is a certain $\ell_p$ relaxation of the usual notion of diameter (resp. radius) of a subset of a metric space. These families recover the previously studied Vietoris-Rips and Čech metric thickenings when $p=\infty$. As our main contribution, we prove a stability theorem for the persistent homology of $p$-Vietoris-Rips and $p$-Čech metric thickenings, which is novel even in the case $p=\infty$. In the specific case $p=2$, we prove a Hausmann-type theorem for thickenings of manifolds, and we derive the complete list of homotopy types of the $2$-Vietoris-Rips thickenings of the $n$-sphere as the scale increases.
title The Persistent Topology of Optimal Transport Based Metric Thickenings
topic Metric Geometry
Algebraic Topology
55N31, 51F99, 53C23
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.15061