Limit theorems for critical faces above the vanishing threshold

Abstract

We investigate convergence of point processes associated with critical faces for a Čech filtration built over a homogeneous Poisson point process in the $d$-dimensional flat torus. The convergence of our point process is established in terms of the ${\mathcal{M}}_0$-topology, when the connecting radius of a Čech complex decays to $0$, so slowly that critical faces are even less likely to occur than those in the regime of threshold for homological connectivity. We also obtain a series of limit theorems for positive and negative critical faces, all of which are considerably analogous to those for critical faces.

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