Persistent homology scaling conjecture

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Let XnX_n be a random sample of nn points from a compact set X⊆RmX\subseteq\mathbb{R}^m, distributed according to a nonsingular probability measure μ\mu, where m≥2m\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 0≤i<m0\leq i<m, there is a constant C≥0C\geq 0, depending on μ\mu, mm, and ii, such that

Li(Xn)=Cn(m−1)/mL^i(X_n)=Cn^{(m-1)/m}

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

References

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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