The space of persistence diagrams has infinite asymptotic dimension

We define an obstruction to finite asymptotic dimension for metric spaces that we call k-prisms. This structure allows for a simple proof that the space of persistence diagrams has infinite asymptotic dimension in a Wasserstein metric.

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