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The theory of multidimensional persistence

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Persistent homology captures the topology of a filtration - a one-parameter family of increasing spaces - in terms of a complete discrete invariant. This invariant is a multiset of intervals that denote the lifetimes of the topological entities within the filtration. In many applications of topology, we need to study a multifiltration: a family of spaces parameterized along multiple geometric dimensions. In this paper, we show that no similar complete discrete invariant exists for multidimensional persistence. Instead, we propose the rank invariant, a discrete invariant for the robust estimation of Betti numbers in a multifiltration, and prove its completeness in one dimension.

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    SCG '07: Proceedings of the twenty-third annual symposium on Computational geometry
    June 2007
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    ISBN:9781595937056
    DOI:10.1145/1247069
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    2. multidimensional analysis
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