Michael Robinson
2018.5.23Compositionality
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Consistency filtration is a functor that transforms sheaf and assignment into nested covers preserving structure, showing robustness to perturbations.
Abstract
An assignment to a sheaf is the choice of a local section from each open set in the sheaf's base space, without regard to how these local sections are related to one another. This article explains that the consistency radius --- which quantifies the agreement between overlapping local sections in the assignment --- is a continuous map. When thresholded, the consistency radius produces the consistency filtration, which is a filtration of open covers. This article shows that the consistency filtration is a functor that transforms the structure of the sheaf and assignment into a nested set of covers in a structure-preserving way. Furthermore, this article shows that consistency filtration is robust to perturbations, establishing its validity for arbitrarily thresholded, noisy data.
Citation format
ROBINSON, Michael. Assignments to sheaves of pseudometric spaces [preprint]. arXiv, 2018. arXiv:1805.08927.