Continuation of point clouds via persistence diagrams
Marcio Gameiro, Yasuaki Hiraoka, Ippei Obayashi · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena · 2015
In this paper, we present a mathematical and algorithmic framework for the continuation of point clouds by persistence diagrams. A key property used in the method is that the persistence map, which assigns a persistence diagram to a point cloud, is differentiable. This allows us to apply the Newton–Raphson continuation method in this setting. Given an original point cloud P , its persistence diagram D , and a target persistence diagram D ′ , we gradually move from D to D ′ , by successively computing intermediate point clouds until we finally find a point cloud P ′ having D ′ as its persistence diagram. Our method can be applied to a wide variety of situations in topological data analysis where it is necessary to solve an inverse problem , from persistence diagrams to point cloud data.