The Space of Persistence Diagrams Fails to Have Yu's Property A
Keywords:
asymptotic dimension, persistence diagrams, property AAbstract
We define a simple obstruction to Yu's property A that we call $k$-prisms. This structure allows for a straightforward proof that the space of persistence diagrams fails to have property A in a Wasserstein metric.
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