Necessary conditions for discontinuities of multidimensional persistent Betti numbers. (19th February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cerri, Andrea; Frosini, Patrizio
• Is Part Of: Mathematical methods in the applied sciences. Volume 38:Number 4(2015:Mar. 15)
• Page Start: 617
• Page End: 629
• Publication Date: 2014-02-19
• Subjects: Mathematics -- Periodicals; Technology -- Mathematics -- Periodicals; 519
• DOI: 10.1002/mma.3093
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0170-4214

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="mma3093-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p id="mma3093-para-0001">Topological persistence has proven to be a promising framework for dealing with problems concerning the analysis of data. In this context, it was originally introduced by taking into account 1‐dimensional properties of data, modeled by real‐valued functions. More recently, topological persistence has been generalized to consider multidimensional properties of data, coded by vector‐valued functions. This extension enables the study of <italic>multidimensional persistent Betti numbers</italic>, which provide a representation of data based on the properties under examination. In this contribution, we establish a new link between multidimensional topological persistence and Pareto optimality, proving that discontinuities of multidimensional persistent Betti numbers are necessarily pseudocritical or special values of the considered functions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.</p> </abstract>