Measures determined by their values on balls and Gromov-Wasserstein convergence

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Main Authors: van Delft, Anne, Blumberg, Andrew J.
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Published: 2024
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Blumberg, Andrew J.
contents A classical question about a metric space is whether Borel measures on the space are determined by their values on balls. We show that for any given measure this property is stable under Gromov-Wasserstein convergence of metric measure spaces. We then use this result to show that suitable bounded subspaces of the space of persistence diagrams have the property that any Borel measure is determined by its values on balls. This justifies the use of empirical ball volumes for statistical testing in topological data analysis (TDA). Our intended application is to deploy the statistical foundations of van Delft and Blumberg (2023) for time series of random geometric objects in the context of TDA invariants, specifically persistent homology and zigzag persistence.
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spellingShingle Measures determined by their values on balls and Gromov-Wasserstein convergence
van Delft, Anne
Blumberg, Andrew J.
Algebraic Topology
Probability
62R40, 55N31
A classical question about a metric space is whether Borel measures on the space are determined by their values on balls. We show that for any given measure this property is stable under Gromov-Wasserstein convergence of metric measure spaces. We then use this result to show that suitable bounded subspaces of the space of persistence diagrams have the property that any Borel measure is determined by its values on balls. This justifies the use of empirical ball volumes for statistical testing in topological data analysis (TDA). Our intended application is to deploy the statistical foundations of van Delft and Blumberg (2023) for time series of random geometric objects in the context of TDA invariants, specifically persistent homology and zigzag persistence.
title Measures determined by their values on balls and Gromov-Wasserstein convergence
topic Algebraic Topology
Probability
62R40, 55N31
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11125