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Zigzag persistent homology and real-valued functions

Carlsson, Gunnar, de Silva, Vin, Morozov, Dmitriy·2009·Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual symposium on Computational geometry

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We study the problem of computing zigzag persistence of a sequence of homology groups and study a particular sequence derived from the levelsets of a real-valued function on a topological space. The result is a local, symmetric interval descriptor of the function. Our structural results establish a connection between the zigzag pairs in this sequence and extended persistence, and in the process resolve an open question associated with the latter. Our algorithmic results not only provide a way to compute zigzag persistence for any sequence of homology groups, but combined with our structural results give a novel algorithm for computing extended persistence. This algorithm is easily parallelizable and uses (asymptotically) less memory.

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Authors
Carlsson, G., de Silva, V., & Morozov, D.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA
Venue
Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual symposium on Computational geometry
Publisher
ACM
Published
2009-06-08
Pages
247-256
OpenAlex
W2158407067
Cited by
272
References
17
Citations by year
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FWCI
6.33
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) (publishedVersion)
Funders
Pomona College
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Mathematical Physics › Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Geometry and Topology › Geometric and Algebraic Topology
Keywords
zigzag persistence, persistent homology, level sets, real functions, homology groups, computational topology, parallel algorithms, memory-efficient algorithms

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