Bestvina-Brady discrete Morse theory and Vietoris-Rips complexes

DOI10.1353/AJM.2022.0026zbMATH Open1504.57043arXiv1812.10976OpenAlexW2908292748MaRDI QIDQ5039474FDOQ5039474

Authors: Matthew C. B. Zaremsky 

Publication date: 13 October 2022

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We inspect Vietoris-Rips complexes $V{R}_t(X)$ of certain metric spaces $X$ using a new generalization of Bestvina-Brady discrete Morse theory. Our main result is a pair of metric criteria on $X$, called the Morse Criterion and Link Criterion, that allow us to deduce information about the homotopy types of certain $V{R}_t(X)$. One application is to topological data analysis, specifically persistence of homotopy type for certain Vietoris-Rips complexes. For example we recover some results of Adamaszek-Adams and Hausmann regarding homotopy types of $V{R}_t(S^n)$. Another application is to geometric group theory; we prove that any group acting geometrically on a metric space satisfying a version of the Link Criterion admits a geometric action on a contractible simplicial complex, which has implications for the finiteness properties of the group. This applies for example to asymptotically $CAT(0)$ groups. We also prove that any group with a word metric satisfying the Link Criterion in an appropriate range has a contractible Vietoris-Rips complex, and use combings to exhibit a family of groups with this property.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10976

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zbMATH Keywords

discrete Morse theoryMorse theorygeometric group theoryfiniteness propertiesVietoris-Rips complexword metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Geometric group theory (20F65) Discrete Morse theory and related ideas in manifold topology (57Q70)

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