Output-sensitive Computation of Generalized Persistence Diagrams for 2-filtrations
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When persistence diagrams are formalized as the Mobius inversion of the birth-death function, they naturally generalize to the multi-parameter setting and enjoy many of the key properties, such as stability, that we expect in applications. The direct definition in the 2-parameter setting, and the corresponding brute-force algorithm to compute them, require Ω(n^4) operations. But the size of the generalized persistence diagram, C, can be as low as linear (and as high as cubic). We elucidate a connection between the 2-parameter and the ordinary 1-parameter settings, which allows us to design an output-sensitive algorithm, whose running time is in O(n^3 + Cn).
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