Computing persistent Stiefel-Whitney classes of line bundles

DOI10.1007/S41468-021-00080-4MaRDI QIDQ2125405zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raphaël Tinarrage

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12543

zbMATH Keywords

persistent homologyvector bundlesStiefel-Whitney classessimplicial approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: We propose a definition of persistent Stiefel-Whitney classes of vector bundle filtrations. It relies on seeing vector bundles as subsets of some Euclidean spaces. The usual v{C}ech filtration of such a subset can be endowed with a vector bundle structure, that we call a v{C}ech bundle filtration. We show that this construction is stable and consistent. When the dataset is a finite sample of a line bundle, we implement an effective algorithm to compute its persistent Stiefel-Whitney classes. In order to use simplicial approximation techniques in practice, we develop a notion of weak simplicial approximation. As a theoretical example, we give an in-depth study of the normal bundle of the circle, which reduces to understanding the persistent cohomology of the torus knot (1,2). We illustrate our method on several datasets inspired by image analysis.

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