{"paper":{"title":"Quantum encodings that preserve persistent homology","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CG","math.AT"],"primary_cat":"quant-ph","authors_text":"Andrew Vlasic, Arthur J. Parzygnat","submitted_at":"2026-05-27T18:00:00Z","abstract_excerpt":"Given a data set with a notion of distance, such as a point cloud in Euclidean space, topological data analysis (TDA) uses techniques from algebraic topology and metric geometry to infer the topology of a hypothetical manifold from which the data are sampled. This inference is achieved by calculating topological invariants, some of which are difficult to compute classically. Meanwhile, quantum TDA utilizes quantum processes to extract the invariants used in making such inferences in an attempt to speed up the computations. Because applying transformations to the original classical dataset coul"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2605.28927","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2605.28927/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}