Topological persistence and simplification

  • Authors:
  • H. Edelsbrunner;D. Letscher;A. Zomorodian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '00 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We formalize a notion of topological simplification within the framework of a filtration, which is the history of a growing complex. We classify a topological change that happens during growth as either a feature or noise, depending on its life-time or persistence within the filtration. We give fast algorithms for completing persistence and experimental evidence for their speed and utility.