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The Space of Persistence Diagrams on $n$ Points Coarsely Embeds into Hilbert Space

Metric Geometry 2021-10-22 v2 Algebraic Topology Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that the space of persistence diagrams on nn points (with the bottleneck or a Wasserstein distance) coarsely embeds into Hilbert space by showing it is of asymptotic dimension 2n2n. Such an embedding enables utilisation of Hilbert space techniques on the space of persistence diagrams. We also prove that when the number of points is not bounded, the corresponding spaces of persistence diagrams do not have finite asymptotic dimension. Furthermore, in the case of the bottleneck distance, the corresponding space does not coarsely embed into Hilbert space.

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@article{arxiv.1905.09337,
  title  = {The Space of Persistence Diagrams on $n$ Points Coarsely Embeds into Hilbert Space},
  author = {Atish Mitra and Žiga Virk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09337},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Error in a proof corrected, see the note in the introduction for details