Persistent Homology of Filtered Covers

Publication date 28 February 2012

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Discrete mathematics in relation to computer science (68R99)

Abstract: We prove an extension to the simplicial Nerve Lemma which establishes isomorphism of persistent homology groups, in the case where the covering spaces are filtered. While persistent homology is now widely used in topological data analysis, the usual Nerve Lemma does not provide isomorphism of persistent homology groups. Our argument involves some homological algebra: the key point being that although the maps produced in the standard proof of the Nerve Lemma do not commute as maps of chain complexes, the maps they induce on homology do.

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