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authorMarc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr>2019-03-19 12:05:05 +0100
committerMarc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr>2019-03-19 12:05:05 +0100
commitbaf00e2d21884bd3cc711e281ae77fe31e794b32 (patch)
tree03507ef062141272c5986f6d614226cb541cec2a /src/Rips_complex/doc
parent6a868032db9b2fdc9e18277a5049b650b9b1878b (diff)
Start fixing the sparse rips to match the true definition (not a clique complex)
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-rw-r--r--src/Rips_complex/doc/Intro_rips_complex.h7
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diff --git a/src/Rips_complex/doc/Intro_rips_complex.h b/src/Rips_complex/doc/Intro_rips_complex.h
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--- a/src/Rips_complex/doc/Intro_rips_complex.h
+++ b/src/Rips_complex/doc/Intro_rips_complex.h
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ namespace rips_complex {
* The sparse Rips filtration was introduced by Don Sheehy
* \cite sheehy13linear. We are using the version described in
* \cite buchet16efficient (except that we multiply all filtration values
- * by 2, to match the usual Rips complex), which proves a
- * \f$\frac{1+\epsilon}{1-\epsilon}\f$-interleaving, although in practice the
+ * by 2, to match the usual Rips complex), for which \cite cavanna15geometric proves a
+ * \f$(1,\frac{1}{1-\epsilon})\f$-interleaving, although in practice the
* error is usually smaller.
* A more intuitive presentation of the idea is available in
* \cite cavanna15geometric, and in a video \cite cavanna15visualizing.
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ namespace rips_complex {
* Theoretical guarantees are only available for \f$\epsilon<1\f$. The
* construction accepts larger values of &epsilon;, and the size of the complex
* keeps decreasing, but there is no guarantee on the quality of the result.
+ * Note that while the number of edges decreases when &epsilon; increases, the
+ * number of higher-dimensional simplices may not be monotonous when
+ * \f$\frac12\leq\epsilon\leq 1\f$.
*
* \section ripspointsdistance Point cloud and distance function
*