Persistent Homology and the Upper Box Dimension

02/02/2018

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by   Benjamin Schweinhart, et al.

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We introduce a fractal dimension for a metric space based on the persistent homology of subsets of that space. We exhibit hypotheses under which this dimension is comparable to the upper box dimension; in particular, the dimensions coincide for subsets of R^2 whose upper box dimension exceeds 1.5.