Vietoris thickenings and complexes are weakly homotopy equivalent

DOI10.1007/S41468-023-00135-8arXiv2303.01019MaRDI QIDQ6428149FDOQ6428149

Authors: Patrick Gillespie 

Publication date: 2 March 2023

Abstract: Characterizing the homotopy types of the Vietoris--Rips complexes of a metric space $X$ is in general a difficult problem. The Vietoris--Rips metric thickening, a metric space analogue of the Vietoris--Rips complex, was introduced as a potentially more amenable object of study with several advantageous properties, yet the relationship between its homotopy type and that of the Vietoris--Rips complex was not fully understood. We show that for any metric space $X$ and threshold $r>0$, the natural bijection between the (open) Vietoris--Rips complex and Vietoris--Rips metric thickening is a weak homotopy equivalence.

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Metric geometry (51F99) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10)

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• Vietoris thickenings and complexes have isomorphic homotopy groups

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