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Lipschitz Functions Have L p -Stable Persistence

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We prove two stability results for Lipschitz functions on triangulable, compact metric spaces and consider applications of both to problems in systems biology. Given two functions, the first result is formulated in terms of the Wasserstein distance between their persistence diagrams and the second in terms of their total persistence.

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Correspondence to Herbert Edelsbrunner.

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Communicated By Peter Olver.

This research is partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under grants HR0011-05-1-0007 and HR0011-05-1-0057 and by CNRS under grant PICS-3416.

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Cohen-Steiner, D., Edelsbrunner, H., Harer, J. et al. Lipschitz Functions Have L p -Stable Persistence. Found Comput Math 10, 127–139 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10208-010-9060-6

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