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We define persistent homology groups over any set of spaces which have inclusions defined so that the corresponding directed graph between the spaces is acyclic, as well as along any subgraph of this directed graph. This method…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Erin Wolf Chambers , David Letscher

We introduce several geometric notions, including the width of a homology class, to the theory of persistent homology. These ideas provide geometric interpretations of persistence diagrams. Indeed, we give quantitative and geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Henry Adams , Baris Coskunuzer

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

Persistent homology (PH) is a method used in topological data analysis (TDA) to study qualitative features of data that persist across multiple scales. It is robust to perturbations of input data, independent of dimensions and coordinates,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nina Otter , Mason A. Porter , Ulrike Tillmann , Peter Grindrod , Heather A. Harrington

Given a finite set in a metric space, the topological analysis generalizes hierarchical clustering using a 1-parameter family of homology groups to quantify connectivity in all dimensions. The connectivity is compactly described by the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Hubert Wagner

Persistent Homology (PH) is a fundamental tool in computational topology, designed to uncover the intrinsic geometric and topological features of data across multiple scales. Originating within the broader framework of Topological Data…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Aurelie Jodelle Kemme , Collins Amburo Agyingi

Traditional risk measures in finance, predominantly based on the second moment of return distributions or tail risk heuristics (VaR/CVaR), fail to account for the intrinsic geometric structure of market dynamics. This paper introduces a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Gabriel Santana , Jemirson Ramirez

In the theory of persistent homology, a well known duality relates the barcodes of the absolute homology and relative cohomology of a one-parameter simplicial filtration. Motivated by the problem of computing free presentations of the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Ulrich Bauer , Fabian Lenzen , Michael Lesnick

In this article we propose a novel approach for comparing the persistent homology representations of two spaces (filtrations). Commonly used methods are based on numerical summaries such as persistence diagrams and persistence landscapes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yohai Reani , Omer Bobrowski

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

Persistent homology typically studies the evolution of homology groups $H_p(X)$ (with coefficients in a field) along a filtration of topological spaces. $A_\infty$-persistence extends this theory by analysing the evolution of subspaces such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Francisco Belchí

Persistent homology is typically computed through persistent cohomology. While this generally improves the running time significantly, it does not facilitate extraction of homology representatives. The mentioned representatives are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Matija Čufar , Žiga Virk

We investigate the large-scale structure and temporal evolution of cyclonic and anticyclonic systems in the North Atlantic using persistent homology applied to daily sea-level pressure anomalies from the ERA5 reanalysis (1950-2022). By…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Himanshu Yadav , Gisela D. Charó , Davide Faranda

Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Peter T. Kim

We present a unified pipeline for univariate time series classification via complex networks and persistent homology. A time series is mapped to a graph through one of five constructions across three families (visibility (natural and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-05 İsmail Güzel

Persistent homology is a widely used tool in Topological Data Analysis that encodes multiscale topological information as a multi-set of points in the plane called a persistence diagram. It is difficult to apply statistical theory directly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Frédéric Chazal , Brittany Terese Fasy , Fabrizio Lecci , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

The machinery of topological data analysis becomes increasingly popular in a broad range of machine learning tasks, ranging from anomaly detection and manifold learning to graph classification. Persistent homology is one of the key…

BPS spectra give important insights into the non-perturbative regimes of supersymmetric theories. Often from the study of BPS states one can infer properties of the geometrical or algebraic structures underlying such theories. In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-10 Michele Cirafici

Persistent homology of the Rips filtration allows to track topological features of a point cloud over scales, and is a foundational tool of topological data analysis. Unfortunately, the Rips-filtration is exponentially sized, when…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Bernhard Brehm , Hanne Hardering