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ArticleDiscrete & computational geometry2026

A Faithful Discretization of Verbose Directional Transforms.

Brittany Terese Fasy, Samuel Micka, David L Millman, Anna Schenfisch, Lucia Williams

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Article in Discrete & computational geometry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Brittany Terese FasySchool of Computing, Montana State U, Bozeman, Montana USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1908-0154
Samuel MickaMathematics & Computer Science Department, Western Colorado U, Gunnison, Colorado USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3814-9727
David L MillmanSchool of Computing, Montana State U, Bozeman, Montana USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4112-3026
Anna SchenfischKTH Royal Intitute of Tech, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2546-5333
Lucia WilliamsUniversity of Montana, Missoula, MT USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3785-0247

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Abstract

The persistent homology transform, Betti function transform, and Euler characteristic transform represent a shape with a multiset of persistence diagrams, Betti functions, or Euler characteristic functions, respectively, parameterized by the sphere of directions in the ambient space. In this work, we give the first explicit construction of finite sets of directions discretizing the verbose variants of these transforms and show that such discretizations faithfully represent the underlying shape. Our discretization, while exponential in the dimension of the shape, does not depend on any restrictions on the particular immersion beyond general position, and is stable with respect to various perturbations.

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Betti functionsDirectional transformsEuler characteristic curvesImmersed simplicial complexesPersistence diagramsReconstructionShape representation

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PMID41943796
PMCPMC13050332

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