Cone fields and topological sampling in manifolds with bounded curvature

Details Cone fields and topological sampling in manifolds with bounded curvature Cone fields and topological sampling in manifolds with bounded curvature

2011-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/1112.6160v1

Computer Science

Computational Geometry

17 pages, 2 figures

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Often noisy point clouds are given as an approximation of a particular compact set of interest. A finite point cloud is a compact set. This paper proves a reconstruction theorem which gives a sufficient condition, as a bound on the Hausdorff distance between two compact sets, for when certain offsets of these two sets are homotopic in terms of the absence of {\mu}-critical points in an annular region. Since an offset of a set deformation retracts to the set itself provided that there are no critical points of the distance function nearby, we can use this theorem to show when the offset of a point cloud is homotopy equivalent to the set it is sampled from. The ambient space can be any Riemannian manifold but we focus on ambient manifolds which have nowhere negative curvature. In the process, we prove stability theorems for {\mu}-critical points when the ambient space is a manifold.

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