On the definition of the homological critical value

DOI10.1007/S40062-015-0101-3MaRDI QIDQ260080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dejan Govc

Publication date 18 March 2016

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6817

zbMATH Keywords

counterexampledefinitionhomological critical valuepersistent homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45) Counterexamples in general topology (54G20) Homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N99) Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30)

Abstract: We point out that there is a problem with the definition of homological critical value (as defined in the widely cited paper cite{stability} by Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner and Harer). Under that definition, the critical value lemma of cite{stability} in fact fails. We provide several counterexamples and a definition (due to Bubenik and Scott cite{categorification}) we feel should be preferred and under which the critical value lemma does indeed hold. One of the counterexamples we have found is a height function on a compact smooth manifold. In the end we prove that, despite all this, a modified version of the critical value lemma remains valid under the original definition.

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