Persistent homology scaling conjecture

Let XnX_n be a random sample of nn points from a compact set XRmX\subseteq\mathbb{R}^m, distributed according to a nonsingular probability measure μ\mu, where m2m\geq 2. Let Li(Xn)L^i(X_n) denote the sum of the lengths of the intervals in ii-dimensional persistent homology. Persistent homology scaling conjecture. For all 0i<m0\leq i<m, there is a constant C0C\geq 0, depending on μ\mu, mm, and ii, such that

Li(Xn)=Cn(m1)/mL^i(X_n)=Cn^{(m-1)/m}

with probability one as nn\to\infty. This extends the known i=0i=0 scaling result implied by Steele's work; the higher-dimensional cases are presented as conjectural.

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Primary source

Henry Adams, Manuchehr Aminian, Elin Farnell, Michael Kirby, Chris Peterson, Joshua Mirth, Rachel Neville, Patrick Shipman and Clayton Shonkwiler, “A fractal dimension for measures via persistent homology”, arXiv:1808.01079 (2019).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1706.04876, arXiv:1006.2237.

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