Topological inference of the Conley index

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

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The paper is concerned with the computation of the homology Conley index of an isolated invariant set of the negative gradient flow of a smooth function on a closed submanifold of \(\mathbb{R}^d\). The goal is to compute the homology Conley index with high probability from a finite point sample. The authors first construct a special index pair \((\mathcal{N},\mathcal{N}_-)\) such that \(\mathcal{N}\) and \(\mathcal{N}_-\) have positive reach as subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^d\). Let \(\mathbb{X}\) be a uniform, independent finite point sample, and set \(\mathbb{X}_-:= \mathbb{X}\cap \mathcal{N}_-\). A simplified version of their main result states that if the density of \((\mathbb{X},\mathbb{X}_-)\) in \((\mathcal{N},\mathcal{N}_-)\) exceeds an explicit threshold then \(H_*(\mathbb{X}^\epsilon,\mathbb{X}_-^\epsilon)\) is isomorphic to the homology Conley index \(H_*(\mathcal{N},\mathcal{N}_-)\). A point sample with sufficient density can be obtained with high probability from a uniform, i.i.d. sample of \((\mathcal{N},\mathcal{N}_-)\) provided the number of points exceeds a certain threshold. These thresholds depend only on the reach of the manifold and \(C^2\)-data of the function.

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