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Hauptverfasser: Belova, Nadezhda, Goldberg, Maxwell, Memoli, Facundo, Raghunath, Sriram, Xie, Andrew
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04624
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author Belova, Nadezhda
Goldberg, Maxwell
Memoli, Facundo
Raghunath, Sriram
Xie, Andrew
author_facet Belova, Nadezhda
Goldberg, Maxwell
Memoli, Facundo
Raghunath, Sriram
Xie, Andrew
contents Techniques from topological data analysis (TDA) have proven effective in studying time-dependent data arising in dynamic systems, such as animal swarming behavior and spatiotemporal patterns in neuroscience. While early algorithms leveraged efficient updates to persistence diagrams for dynamic data, they struggled to distinguish behaviors that are isometric at each fixed time but differ qualitatively. This limitation was addressed by Kim and Mémoli, who introduced a spatiotemporal persistence framework for dynamic metric spaces, resulting in multiparameter persistence modules. However, these modules pose computational challenges. To address this, we build on insights from Gómez and Mémoli, who observed that the homology of Rips complexes over size $(2k+2)$ point subsets of a metric space--termed principal curvature sets--is both tractable and informative. We extend this idea to dynamic settings by introducing dynamic curvature-set persistent homology, applying the spatiotemporal framework of Kim and Mémoli to curvature sets. We prove that the resulting multiparameter persistence modules are interval-decomposable: in fact, they possess a stronger property we term antichain-decomposable. Utilizing this property, we present a new algorithm to efficiently compute the erosion distance $d_E$ (due to Patel) between arbitrary antichain-decomposable modules (including, but not limited to modules produced by our construction). Additionally, our construction is stable with respect to a generalized Gromov-Hausdorff distance between time-dependent datasets proposed by Kim and Mémoli. This enables a robust computational pipeline for distinguishing dynamic data, as demonstrated in experiments with the Boids model, where we successfully detect parameter changes.
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spellingShingle Discrimination of Dynamic Data via Curvature Sets
Belova, Nadezhda
Goldberg, Maxwell
Memoli, Facundo
Raghunath, Sriram
Xie, Andrew
Algebraic Topology
Techniques from topological data analysis (TDA) have proven effective in studying time-dependent data arising in dynamic systems, such as animal swarming behavior and spatiotemporal patterns in neuroscience. While early algorithms leveraged efficient updates to persistence diagrams for dynamic data, they struggled to distinguish behaviors that are isometric at each fixed time but differ qualitatively. This limitation was addressed by Kim and Mémoli, who introduced a spatiotemporal persistence framework for dynamic metric spaces, resulting in multiparameter persistence modules. However, these modules pose computational challenges. To address this, we build on insights from Gómez and Mémoli, who observed that the homology of Rips complexes over size $(2k+2)$ point subsets of a metric space--termed principal curvature sets--is both tractable and informative. We extend this idea to dynamic settings by introducing dynamic curvature-set persistent homology, applying the spatiotemporal framework of Kim and Mémoli to curvature sets. We prove that the resulting multiparameter persistence modules are interval-decomposable: in fact, they possess a stronger property we term antichain-decomposable. Utilizing this property, we present a new algorithm to efficiently compute the erosion distance $d_E$ (due to Patel) between arbitrary antichain-decomposable modules (including, but not limited to modules produced by our construction). Additionally, our construction is stable with respect to a generalized Gromov-Hausdorff distance between time-dependent datasets proposed by Kim and Mémoli. This enables a robust computational pipeline for distinguishing dynamic data, as demonstrated in experiments with the Boids model, where we successfully detect parameter changes.
title Discrimination of Dynamic Data via Curvature Sets
topic Algebraic Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04624