Categorified Reeb graphs

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DOI10.1007/S00454-016-9763-9zbMATH Open1350.68271DBLPjournals/dcg/SilvaMP16arXiv1501.04147OpenAlexW3106512202WikidataQ59442821 ScholiaQ59442821MaRDI QIDQ309649FDOQ309649


Authors: Vin de Silva, Elizabeth Munch, Amit D. Patel Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 September 2016

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Reeb graph is a construction which originated in Morse theory to study a real valued function defined on a topological space. More recently, it has been used in various applications to study noisy data which creates a desire to define a measure of similarity between these structures. Here, we exploit the fact that the category of Reeb graphs is equivalent to the category of a particular class of cosheaf. Using this equivalency, we can define an `interleaving' distance between Reeb graphs which is stable under the perturbation of a function. Along the way, we obtain a natural construction for smoothing a Reeb graph to reduce its topological complexity. The smoothed Reeb graph can be constructed in polynomial time.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04147




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