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| author | George, Jasmine Osborn, Oscar Lledo Munch, Elizabeth Ridgley II, Messiah Wang, Elena Xinyi |
| author_facet | George, Jasmine Osborn, Oscar Lledo Munch, Elizabeth Ridgley II, Messiah Wang, Elena Xinyi |
| contents | The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is a robust method for shape classification. It takes an embedded shape and, for each direction, computes a piecewise constant function representing the Euler Characteristic of the shape's sublevel sets, which are defined by the height function in that direction. It has applications in TDA inverse problems, such as shape reconstruction, and is also employed with machine learning methodologies. In this paper, we define a distance between the ECTs of two distinct geometric embeddings of the same abstract simplicial complex and provide an upper bound for this distance. The Super Lifted Euler Characteristic Transform (SELECT), a related construction, extends the ECT to scalar fields defined on shapes. We establish a similar distance bound for SELECT, specifically when applied to fields defined on embedded simplicial complexes. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Stability of the Euler Characteristic Transform for a Perturbed Embedding George, Jasmine Osborn, Oscar Lledo Munch, Elizabeth Ridgley II, Messiah Wang, Elena Xinyi Computational Geometry 55N31 The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is a robust method for shape classification. It takes an embedded shape and, for each direction, computes a piecewise constant function representing the Euler Characteristic of the shape's sublevel sets, which are defined by the height function in that direction. It has applications in TDA inverse problems, such as shape reconstruction, and is also employed with machine learning methodologies. In this paper, we define a distance between the ECTs of two distinct geometric embeddings of the same abstract simplicial complex and provide an upper bound for this distance. The Super Lifted Euler Characteristic Transform (SELECT), a related construction, extends the ECT to scalar fields defined on shapes. We establish a similar distance bound for SELECT, specifically when applied to fields defined on embedded simplicial complexes. |
| title | On the Stability of the Euler Characteristic Transform for a Perturbed Embedding |
| topic | Computational Geometry 55N31 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19991 |