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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.24

The Universal 𝓁^p-Metric on Merge Trees

Authors: Robert Cardona, Justin Curry, Tung Lam, and Michael Lesnick

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 224, 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)

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Adapting a definition given by Bjerkevik and Lesnick for multiparameter persistence modules, we introduce an 𝓁^p-type extension of the interleaving distance on merge trees. We show that our distance is a metric, and that it upper-bounds the p-Wasserstein distance between the associated barcodes. For each p ∈ [1,∞], we prove that this distance is stable with respect to cellular sublevel filtrations and that it is the universal (i.e., largest) distance satisfying this stability property. In the p = ∞ case, this gives a novel proof of universality for the interleaving distance on merge trees.

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Robert Cardona, Justin Curry, Tung Lam, and Michael Lesnick. The Universal 𝓁^p-Metric on Merge Trees. In 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 224, pp. 24:1-24:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{cardona_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.24,
  author =	{Cardona, Robert and Curry, Justin and Lam, Tung and Lesnick, Michael},
  title =	{{The Universal 𝓁^p-Metric on Merge Trees}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-227-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{224},
  editor =	{Goaoc, Xavier and Kerber, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160325},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: merge trees, hierarchical clustering, persistent homology, Wasserstein distances, interleavings}
}

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