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The interleaving distance is arguably the most prominent distance measure in topological data analysis. In this paper, we provide bounds on the computational complexity of determining the interleaving distance in several settings. We show…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Magnus Bakke Botnan

Recently, $p$-presentation distances for $p\in [1,\infty]$ were introduced for merge trees and multiparameter persistence modules as more sensitive variations of the respective interleaving distances ($p=\infty)$. It is well-known that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Magnus Bakke Botnan

Computation of the interleaving distance between persistence modules is a central task in topological data analysis. For $1$-parameter persistence modules, thanks to the isometry theorem, this can be done by computing the bottleneck…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Tamal K. Dey , Cheng Xin

We give formulas for calculating the interleaving distance between rectangle persistence modules that depend solely on the geometry of the underlying rectangles. Moreover, we extend our results to calculate the bottleneck distance for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Mehmet Ali Batan , Claudia Landi , Mehmetcik Pamuk

One of the main reasons for topological persistence being useful in data analysis is that it is backed up by a stability (isometry) property: persistence diagrams of $1$-parameter persistence modules are stable in the sense that the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Tamal K. Dey , Cheng Xin

The algebraic stability theorem for $\mathbb{R}$-persistence modules is a fundamental result in topological data analysis. We present a stability theorem for $n$-dimensional rectangle decomposable persistence modules up to a constant…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik

In connection with machine arithmetic, we are interested in systems of constraints of the form x + k \leq y + k'. Over integers, the satisfiability problem for such systems is polynomial time. The problem becomes NP complete if we restrict…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-07 Nikolaj Bjørner , Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Madan Musuvathi

The interleaving distance is arguably the most widely used metric in topological data analysis (TDA) due to its applicability to a wide array of inputs of interest, such as (multiparameter) persistence modules, Reeb graphs, merge trees, and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Astrid A. Olave , Elizabeth Munch

The pruning distance recently introduced by Bjerkevik compares persistence modules using approximate decompositions called prunings. Bjerkevik conjectures that this distance is Lipschitz equivalent to the classical interleaving distance on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Roy Nicolas Nehme

The exact computation of the matching distance for multi-parameter persistence modules is an active area of research in computational topology. Achieving an easily obtainable exact computation of this distance would permit multi-parameter…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Asilata Bapat , Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler , Elizabeth R. Stephenson

The matching distance is a pseudometric on multi-parameter persistence modules, defined in terms of the weighted bottleneck distance on the restriction of the modules to affine lines. It is known that this distance is stable in a reasonable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Michael Kerber , Michael Lesnick , Steve Oudot

The concept of edit distance, which dates back to the 1960s in the context of comparing word strings, has since found numerous applications with various adaptations in computer science, computational biology, and applied topology. By…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Woojin Kim , Won Seong

Algebraic persistence studies persistence modules (typically, linear representations of the poset $\mathbf{R}^n$ with $n \geq 1$) and the algebraic relationships between persistence modules that are interleaved. The notion of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Ulrich Bauer , Luis Scoccola

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

Gibbons and Korach studied a fundamental problem in 1997: given an observed sequence of reads and writes of a multi-threaded program, does there exist an interleaving which is sequentially consistent? Apart from applications in testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 R. Govind , S. Krishna , Sanchari Sil , B. Srivathsan

In this paper we explain how to convert discrete invariants into stable ones via what we call hierarchical stabilization. We illustrate this process by constructing stable invariants for multi-parameter persistence modules with respect to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Oliver Gäfvert , Wojciech Chachólski

Several physically inspired problems have been proven undecidable; examples are the spectral gap problem and the membership problem for quantum correlations. Most of these results rely on reductions from a handful of undecidable problems,…

The Isometry Theorem of Chazal et al. and Lesnick is a fundamental result in persistence theory, which states that the interleaving distance between two one-parameter persistence modules is equal to the bottleneck distance between their…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Mujtaba Ali , Tom Needham , Anastasios Stefanou , Ling Zhou

This short note establishes explicit and broadly applicable relationships between persistence-based distances computed locally and globally. In particular, we show that the bottleneck distance between two zigzag persistence modules…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Ellen Gasparovic , Maria Gommel , Emilie Purvine , Radmila Sazdanovic , Bei Wang , Yusu Wang , Lori Ziegelmeier

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
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