Morse theory for chromatic Delaunay triangulations

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Main Authors: Natarajan, Abhinav, Chaplin, Thomas, Brown, Adam, Jimenez, Maria-Jose
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author Natarajan, Abhinav
Chaplin, Thomas
Brown, Adam
Jimenez, Maria-Jose
author_facet Natarajan, Abhinav
Chaplin, Thomas
Brown, Adam
Jimenez, Maria-Jose
contents The chromatic alpha filtration is a generalization of the alpha filtration that can encode spatial relationships among classes of labelled point cloud data, and has applications in topological data analysis of multi-species data. In this paper we introduce the chromatic Delaunay-Čech and chromatic Delaunay-Rips filtrations, which are computationally favourable alternatives to the chromatic alpha filtration. We use generalized discrete Morse theory to show that the Čech, chromatic Delaunay-Čech, and chromatic alpha filtrations are related by simplicial collapses. Our result generalizes a result of Bauer and Edelsbrunner from the non-chromatic to the chromatic setting. We also show that the chromatic Delaunay-Rips filtration is locally stable to perturbations of the underlying point cloud. Our results provide theoretical justification for the use of chromatic Delaunay-Čech and chromatic Delaunay-Rips filtrations in applications, and we demonstrate their computational advantage with numerical experiments.
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spellingShingle Morse theory for chromatic Delaunay triangulations
Natarajan, Abhinav
Chaplin, Thomas
Brown, Adam
Jimenez, Maria-Jose
Algebraic Topology
55N31 (Primary) 55U10, 52-08 (Secondary)
The chromatic alpha filtration is a generalization of the alpha filtration that can encode spatial relationships among classes of labelled point cloud data, and has applications in topological data analysis of multi-species data. In this paper we introduce the chromatic Delaunay-Čech and chromatic Delaunay-Rips filtrations, which are computationally favourable alternatives to the chromatic alpha filtration. We use generalized discrete Morse theory to show that the Čech, chromatic Delaunay-Čech, and chromatic alpha filtrations are related by simplicial collapses. Our result generalizes a result of Bauer and Edelsbrunner from the non-chromatic to the chromatic setting. We also show that the chromatic Delaunay-Rips filtration is locally stable to perturbations of the underlying point cloud. Our results provide theoretical justification for the use of chromatic Delaunay-Čech and chromatic Delaunay-Rips filtrations in applications, and we demonstrate their computational advantage with numerical experiments.
title Morse theory for chromatic Delaunay triangulations
topic Algebraic Topology
55N31 (Primary) 55U10, 52-08 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19303