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+/*    This file is part of the Gudhi Library. The Gudhi library
+ *    (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++
+ *    library for computational topology.
+ *
+ *    Author(s):       Pawel Dlotko
+ *
+ *    Copyright (C) 2016  INRIA (France)
+ *
+ *    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *    (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *    GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef CONCEPT_TOPOLOGICAL_DATA_WITH_DISTANCES_H_
+#define CONCEPT_TOPOLOGICAL_DATA_WITH_DISTANCES_H_
+
+namespace Gudhi {
+
+namespace Persistence_representations {
+
+/** \brief The concept Topological_data_with_distances describes the requirements
+  * for a type to implement a container that allows computations of distance to another contained of that type.
+  * \details
+  * The second parameter of the distance function allow to declare power of a distance. The exact meaning of that
+  * number will be different for different distances. A few examples are given below:
+  * In case of p-Wasserstein distance, the power is equal to p. power = std::limit<double>::max() for bottleneck
+  * distance.
+  *
+  * In case of L^p landscape distance, the power is equal to p. s
+  */
+class Topological_data_with_distances {
+ public:
+  double distance(const Topological_data_with_distances& second, double power = 1);
+};
+
+}  // namespace Persistence_representations
+
+}  // namespace Gudhi
+
+#endif  // CONCEPT_TOPOLOGICAL_DATA_WITH_DISTANCES_H_