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Multiparameter persistence module can capture more topological differences across data instances compared to using a single parameter, where the well-studied matching distance investigates the distance along a straight line in the…

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Merge trees are fundamental structures in topological data analysis. Interleaving distance is a widely accepted metric for comparing merge trees, with applications in visualization and scientific computing. While a greedy algorithm exists…

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The Reeb graph has been utilized in various applications including the analysis of scalar fields. Recently, research has been focused on using topological signatures such as the Reeb graph to compare multiple scalar fields by defining…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Brian Bollen , Erin Chambers , Joshua A. Levine , Elizabeth Munch

We address the problem of estimating multiple modes of a multivariate density using persistent homology, a central tool in Topological Data Analysis. We introduce a method based on the preliminary estimation of the $H_0$-persistence diagram…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Hugo Henneuse

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas , Ahmed El Fatmaoui

In the persistent homology of filtrations, the indecomposable decompositions provide the persistence diagrams. However, in almost all cases of multidimensional persistence, the classification of all indecomposable modules is known to be a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Hideto Asashiba , Mickaël Buchet , Emerson G. Escolar , Ken Nakashima , Michio Yoshiwaki

The stability of persistence diagrams is among the most important results in applied and computational topology. Most results in the literature phrase stability in terms of the bottleneck distance between diagrams and the $\infty$-norm of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Primoz Skraba , Katharine Turner

Multidimensional persistence has been proposed to study the persistence of topological features in data indexed by multiple parameters. In this work, we further explore its algebraic complications from the point of view of higher…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Mickaël Buchet , Emerson G. Escolar

This paper explores persistence modules for circle-valued functions, presenting a new extension of the interleaving and bottleneck distances in this setting. We propose a natural generalisation of barcodes in terms of arcs on a geometric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Nathan Broomhead , Mariam Pirashvili

A $1$-Lipschitz map between compact metric spaces $f\colon X\to Y$ induces a homomorphism of persistence modules on degree-$d$ Vietoris--Rips persistent homology. We define the persistent cost of $f$ from this induced homomorphism by…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Francisco J. Gozzi , Manuela A. Cerdeiro , Pablo E. Riera

The interleaving distance was originally defined in the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) by Chazal et al. as a metric on the class of persistence modules parametrized over the real line. Bubenik et al. subsequently extended the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Vin de Silva , Elizabeth Munch , Anastasios Stefanou

In persistent topology, q-tame modules appear as a natural and large class of persistence modules indexed over the real line for which a persistence diagram is definable. However, unlike persistence modules indexed over a totally ordered…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Frederic Chazal , William Crawley-Boevey , Vin de Silva

In multi-parameter persistence, the matching distance is defined as the supremum of weighted bottleneck distances on the barcodes given by the restriction of persistence modules to lines with a positive slope. In the case of finitely…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler , Elizabeth R. Stephenson

Interleaving distances are used widely in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) as a tool for comparing topological signatures of datasets. The theory of interleaving distances has been extended through various category-theoretic constructions,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Patrick K. McFaddin , Tom Needham

The extended persistence diagram is an invariant of piecewise linear functions, which is known to be stable under perturbations of functions with respect to the bottleneck distance as introduced by Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner, and Harer. We…

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Metric graphs are meaningful objects for modeling complex structures that arise in many real-world applications, such as road networks, river systems, earthquake faults, blood vessels, and filamentary structures in galaxies. To study metric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Ellen Gasparovic , Maria Gommel , Emilie Purvine , Radmila Sazdanovic , Bei Wang , Yusu Wang , Lori Ziegelmeier

A persistence module with $m$ discrete parameters is a diagram of vector spaces indexed by the poset $\mathbb{N}^m$. If we are only interested in the large scale behavior of such a diagram, then we can consider two diagrams equivalent if…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Martin Frankland , Donald Stanley

We study the difficulty of computing topological entropy of subshifts subjected to mixing restrictions. This problem is well-studied for multidimensional subshifts of finite type : there exists a threshold in the irreducibility rate where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Silvère Gangloff , Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus

High order networks are weighted hypergraphs col- lecting relationships between elements of tuples, not necessarily pairs. Valid metric distances between high order networks have been defined but they are difficult to compute when the…

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