Functional limit theorems for the Euler characteristic process in the critical regime

Abstract

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 ${\mathbb{R}}^d$, 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 "functional-level" limit theorems, a strong law of large numbers and a central limit theorem for the appropriately normalized Euler characteristic process.

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