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SUMMARY:Three Inverse Problems for Persistent Homology
DTSTART:20240515T101500
DTEND:20240515T111500
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DESCRIPTION:David Beers\, University of Oxford\nHow much information is lo
 st when we apply the persistence map PH? We investigate this question by s
 tudying the level sets of PH in three different settings. In the first\, w
 e observe that path components of space of Morse functions on a given mani
 fold with the same PH (from the sublevel set filtration) are orbits of Mor
 se functions under the identity component of the diffeomorphism group. Whe
 n barcode endpoints are distinct and the manifold is an orientable surface
 \, this observation allows us to compute the homotopy type of path compone
 nts of level sets of PH\, by leveraging the work of Maksymenko. The second
  setting we study the persistence map in is that of continuous functions o
 n the geometric realization of a tree. By establishing a homotopy equivale
 nce between level sets of PH and a certain configuration space\, we are ab
 le to compute the number of path components in level sets of PH in this se
 tting\, for barcodes with distinct endpoints. Lastly\, we study the subspa
 ce of point clouds with the same barcodes (from the Čech or Vietoris-Rips
  filtration). Here we establish upper and lower bounds on the dimension of
  this space\, and\, in the Vietoris-Rips case\, show that computing the di
 mension of this space is challenging by connecting the problem to rigidity
  theory. In particular\, we show that a point cloud being locally identifi
 able under Vietoris-Rips persistence is equivalent to a certain graph bein
 g rigid on the same point cloud.\n\n 
LOCATION:MA B1 524 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MA%20B1%20524 https://epfl.
 zoom.us/j/68364713927
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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