Spherical Coordinates from Persistent Cohomology

DOI10.1007/S41468-023-00141-WMaRDI QIDQ6409902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolas Schonsheck, Stefan C. Schonsheck

Publication date 6 September 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s41468-023-00141-w

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) Computer science (68-XX)

Abstract: We describe a method to obtain spherical parameterizations of arbitrary data through the use of persistent cohomology and variational optimization. We begin by computing the second-degree persistent cohomology of the filtered Vietoris-Rips (VR) complex of a data set $X$ and extract a cocycle $alpha$ from any significant feature. From this cocycle, we define an associated map $alpha:VR(X)o{S}^2$ and use this map as an infeasible initialization for a variational model, which we show has a unique solution (up to rigid motion). We then employ an alternating gradient descent/M"{o}bius transformation update method to solve the problem and generate a more suitable, i.e., smoother, representative of the homotopy class of $alpha$, preserving the relevant topological feature. Finally, we conduct numerical experiments on both synthetic and real-world data sets to show the efficacy of our proposed approach.

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