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The reflection distance between zigzag persistence modules

Algebraic Topology 2019-07-02 v3 Computational Geometry

Abstract

By invoking the reflection functors introduced by Bernstein, Gelfand, and Ponomarev in 1973, in this paper we define a metric on the space of all zigzag modules of a given length, which we call the reflection distance. We show that the reflection distance between two given zigzag modules of the same length is an upper bound for the 1\ell^1-bottleneck distance between their respective persistence diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.1805.11190,
  title  = {The reflection distance between zigzag persistence modules},
  author = {Alexander Elchesen and Facundo Mémoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11190},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

30 pages, 2 figures. Final version; to appear in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology

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