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Metric reconstruction via optimal transport (1706.04876v2)

Published 15 Jun 2017 in math.MG, math.AT, and math.GT

Abstract: Given a sample of points $X$ in a metric space $M$ and a scale $r>0$, the Vietoris-Rips simplicial complex $\mathrm{VR}(X;r)$ is a standard construction to attempt to recover $M$ from $X$ up to homotopy type. A deficiency of this approach is that $\mathrm{VR}(X;r)$ is not metrizable if it is not locally finite, and thus does not recover metric information about $M$. We attempt to remedy this shortcoming by defining a metric space thickening of $X$, which we call the \emph{Vietoris-Rips thickening} $\mathrm{VR}m(X;r)$, via the theory of optimal transport. When $M$ is a complete Riemannian manifold, or alternatively a compact Hadamard space, we show that the the Vietoris-Rips thickening satisfies Hausmann's theorem ($\mathrm{VR}m(M;r)\simeq M$ for $r$ sufficiently small) with a simpler proof: homotopy equivalence $\mathrm{VR}m(M;r)\to M$ is canonically defined as a center of mass map, and its homotopy inverse is the (now continuous) inclusion map $M\hookrightarrow\mathrm{VR}m(M;r)$. Furthermore, we describe the homotopy type of the Vietoris-Rips thickening of the $n$-sphere at the first positive scale parameter $r$ where the homotopy type changes.

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