Generic Multi-Parameter Persistence Modules are Nearly Indecomposable

arXiv2211.15306MaRDI QIDQ6418712FDOQ6418712

Luis Nerio Scoccola, Ulrich Bauer

Publication date: 28 November 2022

Abstract: A fundamental property of one-parameter persistence modules is that the supports of their indecomposable summands form a stable descriptor of the module. This is far from true of two-parameter persistence modules: we show that, in the interleaving distance, any finitely presentable two-parameter persistence module can be approximated arbitrarily well by an indecomposable, and that, generically, two-parameter persistence modules are nearly indecomposable, in the following sense. For every $varepsilon>0$ there exists a dense and open set consisting of modules that decompose as a direct sum of an indecomposable and an $varepsilon$-trivial module. These results provide further motivation for approaches to multi-parameter persistence that do not rely on decomposing modules by arbitrary indecomposables.

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