The objective of this study is to examine the asymptotic behavior of Betti numbers of Čech complexes treated as stochastic processes and formed from random points in the d-dimensional Euclidean space
${\mathbb{R}}^d$
. We consider the case where the points of the Čech complex are generated by a Poisson process with intensity nf for a probability density f. We look at the cases where the behavior of the connectivity radius of the Čech complex causes simplices of dimension greater than
$k+1$
to vanish in probability, the so-called sparse regime, as well when the connectivity radius is of the order of
$n^{-1/d}$
, the critical regime. We establish limit theorems in the aforementioned regimes: central limit theorems for the sparse and critical regimes, and a Poisson limit theorem for the sparse regime. When the connectivity radius of the Čech complex is
$o(n^{-1/d})$
, i.e. the sparse regime, we can decompose the limiting processes into a time-changed Brownian motion or a time-changed homogeneous Poisson process respectively. In the critical regime, the limiting process is a centered Gaussian process but has a much more complicated representation, because the Čech complex becomes highly connected with many topological holes of any dimension.
This study presents functional limit theorems for the Euler characteristic of Vietoris–Rips complexes. The points are drawn from a nonhomogeneous Poisson process on
$\mathbb{R}^d$
, and the connectivity radius governing the formation of simplices is taken as a function of the time parameter t, which allows us to treat the Euler characteristic as a stochastic process. The setting in which this takes place is that of the critical regime, in which the simplicial complexes are highly connected and have nontrivial topology. We establish two ‘functional-level’ limit theorems, a strong law of large numbers and a central limit theorem, for the appropriately normalized Euler characteristic process.
This study presents functional limit theorems for the Euler characteristic of Vietoris-Rips complexes. The points are drawn from a non-homogeneous Poisson process on R d , and the connectivity radius governing the formation of simplices is taken as a function of time parameter t, which allows us to treat the Euler characteristic as a stochastic process. The setting in which this takes place is that of the critical regime, in which the simplicial complexes are highly connected and have non-trivial topology. We establish two "functionallevel" limit theorems, a strong law of large numbers and a central limit theorem for the appropriately normalized Euler characteristic process.
This study demonstrates functional strong law large numbers for the Euler characteristic process of random geometric complexes formed by random points outside of an expanding ball in R d , in two distinct extreme value theoretic scenarios. When the points are drawn from a heavy-tailed distribution with a regularly varying tail, the Euler characteristic process grows at a regularly varying rate, and the scaled process converges uniformly and almost surely to a smooth function. When the points are drawn from a distribution with an exponentially decaying tail, the Euler characteristic process grows logarithmically, and the scaled process converges to another smooth function in the same sense. All of the limit theorems take place when the points inside the expanding ball are densely distributed, so that the simplex counts outside of the ball of all dimensions contribute to the Euler characteristic process.
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