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A Continuous Mean for Finite Sets of Persistence Diagrams

Presenter
October 10, 2013
Keywords:
  • Means
MSC:
  • 26E60
Abstract
Recent progress has shown that the abstract space of persistence diagrams is Polish, and found necessary and sufficient conditions for a set to be compact. This also allowed for the definition of Frechet means, a construction which is possible for any metric space. Since the Frechet mean is a set, not an element, there were no guarantees that this set was non-empty, however Mileyko et al showed that for well behaved distributions, the Frechet mean is, in fact, non-empty. However, there are simple counterexamples showing that the mean is non-unique, which creates issues when we are interested in continuous, time-varying systems. In order to solve this problem, we present a continuous mean which is a generalization of the Frechet mean.