Estimating persistent Betti numbers for discrete shape analysis

Persistent Topology is an innovative way of matching topology and geometry, and it proves to be an effective mathematical tool in shape analysis. In order to express its full potential for applications, it has to interface with the typical environment of Computer Science: It must be possible to deal with a finite sampling of the object of interest, and with combinatorial representations of it. Following that idea, the main result claims that it is possible to construct a relation between the persistent Betti numbers (PBNs; also called rank invariant) of a compact, Riemannian submanifold X of R^m and the ones of an approximation U of X itself, where U is generated by a ball covering centered in the points of the sampling. Moreover we can state a further result in which, this time, we relate X with a finite simplicial complex S generated, thanks to a particular construction, by the sampling points. To be more precise, strict inequalities hold only in "blind strips'', i.e narrow areas around the discontinuity sets of the PBNs of U (or S). Out of the blind strips, the values of the PBNs of the original object, of the ball covering of it, and of the simplicial complex coincide, respectively.

Sulla Frontiera Libera del Problema con Ostacolo per l'Opzione Put Americana

In questa tesi vengono presentate le prime semplici proprietà della Frontiera Libera relativa alla soluzione del Problema con Ostacolo per l'Operatore di Black & Scholes nel caso dell'Opzione Put Americana. Si ricavano inoltre le cosiddette Equazioni Integrali per la Frontiera Libera, ossia un sistema di equazioni in forma integrale che caratterizzano completamente tale insieme.