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In the context of persistent homology, the well group (EMP 11) of a continuous function into a metric space is a homological measure of how robust the level sets of are against deformations of . Concretely, the Well group at radius of a given point in the codomain consists of all those Čech homology-classes of the domain which are reflected in the level sets of every continuous function whose values differ from those of at most by .
As the level varies, the collection of well groups form a zigzag persistence module, also called a well module (EMP 11, Sec. 3).
Since a well group becomes trivial as soon as one of the level sets is empty, the non-triviality of a well group proves that the existence of a non-empty level set of is robust within deformations of size . In topological data analysis this may be used to detect if there are guaranteed to be any data points at all meeting a certain target of indicator values, known with limited precision, see there for more.
But well groups are known not to resolve all relevant cases and are not known to be computable in all relevant cases (Franek & Krčál 2016). An enhancement of well groups (from homology to cohomotopy) which fixes these problems is persistent cohomotopy (Franek & Krčál 2017, 2018).
Given a continuous function to a Euclidean space and a choice of topological subspace of the latter
the well groups at radius are the intersections of the Čech homology groups of the pre-images for all continuous functions whose maximal distance from is .
(e.g. Franek-Krčál 16, p. 2)
Since the preimages need not be CW-complexes, it is important to use Čech homology in the above definition. With singular homology the definition would trivialize (FK16, p. 3 and Sec. 2).
The concept of well groups was introduced in
Herbert Edelsbrunner, Dmitriy Morozov, Amit Patel, Quantifying Transversality by Measuring the Robustness of Intersections, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 11 3 (2011) 345–361 arXiv:0911.2142
Paul Bendich, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Dmitriy Morozov, Amit Patel, The Robustness of Level Sets, In: M. de Berg, U. Meyer (eds.) Algorithms – ESA 2010. ESA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6346 Springer (2010) doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15775-2_1
Paul Bendich, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Dmitriy Morozov, Amit Patel, Homology and Robustness of Level and Interlevel Sets, Homology, Homotopy and Applications, 15 (2013) 51-72 euclid:1383943667
Review in:
Review, computational analysis and discussion of (persistent) Cohomotopy as an improvement over homology well groups:
Peter Franek, Marek Krčál, On Computability and Triviality of Well Groups, Discrete Comput Geom (2016) 56: 126 (arXiv:1501.03641, doi:10.1007/s00454-016-9794-2)
Peter Franek, Marek Krčál, Persistence of Zero Sets, Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Volume 19 (2017) Number 2 (arXiv:1507.04310, doi:10.4310/HHA.2017.v19.n2.a16)
Peter Franek, Marek Krčál, Hubert Wagner, Solving equations and optimization problems with uncertainty, J Appl. and Comput. Topology (2018) 1: 297 (arxiv:1607.06344, doi:10.1007/s41468-017-0009-6)
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