From Samples to Persistent Stratified Homotopy Types
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Abstract: The natural occurrence of singular spaces in application has led to recent investigations on performing topological data analysis (TDA) in a stratified framework. Non-stratified applications in TDA rely on a series of convenient properties of (persistent) homotopy types of sufficiently regular spaces. Classical notions of stratified homotopy equivalence generally turn out to be too rigid to display similar behavior. At the same time, recent developments in abstract stratified homotopy theory employ weaker notions of stratified equivalences. These exhibit behavior more suitable for the purpose of TDA while still retaining the same homotopy theoretical information as classical stratified homotopy equivalences for common examples such as Whitney stratified spaces. In this work, we establish a notion of persistent stratified homotopy type obtained from a sample with two strata. We show that it behaves much like its non-stratified counterpart and exhibits many properties (such as stability) necessary for an application in TDA. Using local approximations of tangent cones, we describe a pipeline to construct a persistent stratified homotopy type from a non-stratified sample without prior knowledge of the location of the singularity. Our main result is a sampling theorem which guarantees that for a class of Whitney stratified spaces with two strata, our method produces arbitrarily close approximations of the persistent stratified homotopy type of the original space for sufficiently good samples.
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