Stability of Topological Persistence for Domains

Abstract

Scalar functions defined on a topological space omega are at the core of many applications such as shape matching, visualization and physical simulations. Topological persistence is an approach to characterizing these functions. It measures how long topological structures in the level sets {x epsilon omega: f(x) =c} persist as changes. Recently it was shown that the critical values defining a topological structure with relatively large persistence remain almost unaffected by small perturbations. This result suggests that topological persistence is a good measure for matching and comparing scalar functions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2006
Accession Number
AD1001135

Entities

People

  • Rephael Wenger
  • Tamal K. Dey

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computations
  • Computer Science
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Generators
  • Inclusions
  • Intervals
  • Mathematics
  • Notation
  • Perturbations
  • Scalar Functions
  • Sequences
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Triangulation

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  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.

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  • Space