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In this work we define a metric structure to compare functions defined on different merge trees. The metric introduced possesses some stability properties, which we illustrate within a standard topological data analysis (TDA) framework, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matteo Pegoraro

In this paper, we study the induced homological sequence and the induced merge tree of a discrete Morse function on a tree. A discrete Morse function on a tree gives rise to a sequence of Betti numbers that keep track of the number of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Nicholas A. Scoville , Dylan Wen

In this paper, we study merge trees induced by a discrete Morse function on a tree. Given a discrete Morse function, we provide a method to constructing an induced merge tree and define a new notion of equivalence of discrete Morse…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Benjamin Johnson , Nicholas A. Scoville

Edit distances between merge trees of scalar fields have many applications in scientific visualization, such as ensemble analysis, feature tracking or symmetry detection. In this paper, we propose branch mappings, a novel approach to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Florian Wetzels , Heike Leitte , Christoph Garth

A metric phylogenetic tree relating a collection of taxa induces weighted rooted triples and weighted quartets for all subsets of three and four taxa, respectively. New intertaxon distances are defined that can be calculated from these…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-12 Samaneh Yourdkhani , John A. Rhodes

Phylogenetic trees are a central tool in understanding evolution. They are typically inferred from sequence data, and capture evolutionary relationships through time. It is essential to be able to compare trees from different data sources…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Michelle Kendall , Caroline Colijn

Data consisting of a graph with a function mapping into $\mathbb{R}^d$ arise in many data applications, encompassing structures such as Reeb graphs, geometric graphs, and knot embeddings. As such, the ability to compare and cluster such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Erin W. Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

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

In a recent paper on 'Estimating Species Trees from Unrooted Gene Trees' Liu and Yu observe that the distance matrix on the underlying taxon set, which is built up from expected internode distances on gene trees under the multispecies…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-08-26 Martin Kreidl

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

In scientific visualization, scalar fields are often compared through edit distances between their merge trees. Typical tasks include ensemble analysis, feature tracking and symmetry or periodicity detection. Tree edit distances represent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Florian Wetzels , Christoph Garth

Metric embeddings are central to metric theory and its applications. Here we consider embeddings of a different sort: maps from a set to subsets of a metric space so that distances between points are approximated by minimal distances…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-13 David Bryant , Katharina T. Huber , Vincent Moulton , Andreas Spillner

We investigate the interrelations between labeled trees and ultrametric spaces generated by these trees. The labeled trees, which generate complete ultrametrics, totally bounded ultrametrics, and discrete ones, are characterized up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Oleksiy Dovgoshey , Mehmet Küçükaslan

The reliability of a phylogenetic inference method from genomic sequence data is ensured by its statistical consistency. Bayesian inference methods produce a sample of phylogenetic trees from the posterior distribution given sequence data.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Alex Gavryushkin , Alexei J. Drummond

Persistence modules are a central algebraic object arising in topological data analysis. The notion of interleaving provides a natural way to measure distances between persistence modules. We consider various classes of persistence modules,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Peter Bubenik , Tane Vergili

In this work we define a novel edit distance for trees considered with some abstract weights on the edges. The metric is driven by the idea of considering trees as topological summaries in the context of persistence and topological data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matteo Pegoraro

Adapting a definition given by Bjerkevik and Lesnick for multiparameter persistence modules, we introduce an $\ell^p$-type extension of the interleaving distance on merge trees. We show that our distance is a metric, and that it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Robert Cardona , Justin Curry , Tung Lam , Michael Lesnick

This paper introduces a novel stability measure for edit distances between merge trees of piecewise linear scalar fields. We apply the new measure to various metrics introduced recently in the field of scalar field comparison in scientific…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Florian Wetzels , Christoph Garth

There are many metrics available to compare phylogenetic trees since this is a fundamental task in computational biology. In this paper, we focus on one such metric, the $\ell^\infty$-cophenetic metric introduced by Cardona et al. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Elizabeth Munch , Anastasios Stefanou