Approximations of 1-dimensional intrinsic persistence of geodesic spaces and their stability

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Abstract: A standard way of approximating or discretizing a metric space is by taking its Rips complexes. These approximations for all parameters are often bound together into a filtration, to which we apply the fundamental group or the first homology. We call the resulting object persistence. Recent results demonstrate that persistence of a compact geodesic locally contractible space X carries a lot of geometric information. However, by definition the corresponding Rips complexes have uncountably many vertices. In this paper we show that nonetheless, the whole persistence of X may be obtained by an appropriate finite sample (subset of X), and that persistence of any subset of X is well interleaved with the persistence of X. It follows that the persistence of X is the minimum of persistences obtained by all finite samples. Furthermore, we prove a much improved Stability theorem for such approximations. As a special case we provide for each r>0 a density s>0, so that for each s-dense sample SsubsetX the corresponding fundamental group (and the first homology) of the Rips complex of S is isomorphic to the one of X, leading to an improved reconstruction result.









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