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Functional strong law of large numbers for Betti numbers in the tail

Probability 2021-05-28 v2

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the layered structure of topological complexity in the tail of a probability distribution. We establish the functional strong law of large numbers for Betti numbers, a basic quantifier of algebraic topology, of a geometric complex outside an open ball of radius RnR_n, such that RnR_n\to\infty as the sample size nn increases. The nature of the obtained law of large numbers is determined by the decay rate of a probability density. It especially depends on whether the tail of a density decays at a regularly varying rate or an exponentially decaying rate. The nature of the limit theorem depends also on how rapidly RnR_n diverges. In particular, if RnR_n diverges sufficiently slowly, the limiting function in the law of large numbers is crucially affected by the emergence of arbitrarily large connected components supporting topological cycles in the limit.

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@article{arxiv.2103.05799,
  title  = {Functional strong law of large numbers for Betti numbers in the tail},
  author = {Takashi Owada and Zifu Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05799},
  year   = {2021}
}

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43 pages, 2 figures