Topological data analysis of continuum percolation with disks
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Leo Speidel1, Heather A Harrington2, S Jonathan Chapman2
1Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We study continuum percolation with disks, a variant of continuum percolation in two-dimensional Euclidean space, by applying tools from topological data analysis. We interpret each realization of continuum percolation with disks as a topological subspace of [0,1]^{2} and investigate its topological features across many realizations. Specifically, we apply persistent homology to investigate topological changes as we vary the number and radius of disks, and we observe evidence that the longest persisting invariant is born at or near the percolation transition.
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