Zigzag persistent homology and real-valued functions

  • Authors:
  • Gunnar Carlsson;Vin de Silva;Dmitriy Morozov

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We study the problem of computing zigzag persistence of a sequence of homology groups and study a particular sequence derived from the levelsets of a real-valued function on a topological space. The result is a local, symmetric interval descriptor of the function. Our structural results establish a connection between the zigzag pairs in this sequence and extended persistence, and in the process resolve an open question associated with the latter. Our algorithmic results not only provide a way to compute zigzag persistence for any sequence of homology groups, but combined with our structural results give a novel algorithm for computing extended persistence. This algorithm is easily parallelizable and uses (asymptotically) less memory.