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Publications [#42085] of John Harer

Papers Published

  1. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer., Stability of persistence diagrams., Discrete Comput. Geom., vol. 37 (2007), pp. 103-120
    (last updated on 2007/12/16)

    Author's Comments:
    D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer. .

    Abstract:
    The persistence diagram of a real-valued function on a topological space is a multi-set of points in the extended plane. We prove that under mild assumptions on the function, the persistence diagram is stable: small changes in the function imply only small changes in the diagram. We apply this result to estimating the homology of sets in a metric space and to comparing and classifying geometric shapes.

 

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