Computing Topological Persistence for Simplicial Maps

DOI10.1145/2582112.2582165zbMATH Open1395.68299arXiv1208.5018OpenAlexW1970454523MaRDI QIDQ4635559FDOQ4635559

Fengtao Fan, Tamal K. Dey, Yusu Wang

Publication date: 23 April 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the thirtieth annual symposium on Computational geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Algorithms for persistent homology and zigzag persistent homology are well-studied for persistence modules where homomorphisms are induced by inclusion maps. In this paper, we propose a practical algorithm for computing persistence under $mathbb{Z}_2$ coefficients for a sequence of general simplicial maps and show how these maps arise naturally in some applications of topological data analysis. First, we observe that it is not hard to simulate simplicial maps by inclusion maps but not necessarily in a monotone direction. This, combined with the known algorithms for zigzag persistence, provides an algorithm for computing the persistence induced by simplicial maps. Our main result is that the above simple minded approach can be improved for a sequence of simplicial maps given in a monotone direction. A simplicial map can be decomposed into a set of elementary inclusions and vertex collapses--two atomic operations that can be supported efficiently with the notion of simplex annotations for computing persistent homology. A consistent annotation through these atomic operations implies the maintenance of a consistent cohomology basis, hence a homology basis by duality. While the idea of maintaining a cohomology basis through an inclusion is not new, maintaining them through a vertex collapse is new, which constitutes an important atomic operation for simulating simplicial maps. Annotations support the vertex collapse in addition to the usual inclusion quite naturally. Finally, we exhibit an application of this new tool in which we approximate the persistence diagram of a filtration of Rips complexes where vertex collapses are used to tame the blow-up in size.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5018

zbMATH Keywords

topological data analysiscohomologyhomologytopological persistencesimplicial maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

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