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An Excision Theorem for Persistent Homology

Algebraic Topology 2019-10-09 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that an excision property holds for persistent homology groups. This property holds for a large class of filtrations, and in fact we show that given any filtration on a larger space, we can extend it to a filtration of two subspaces which guarantees that the excision property holds for the triple. This method also applies to the Mayer-Vietoris sequence in persistent homology introduced by DiFabio and Landi in 2011, extending their results to a much larger class of filtrations.

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@article{arxiv.1910.03348,
  title  = {An Excision Theorem for Persistent Homology},
  author = {Megan Palser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03348},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages

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