Persistent local systems (Q2039543)

This paper presents a generalization of persistent homology to situations where the rank function takes values in a manifold. For this purpose a persistent local system is constructed which depends on information of a sheaf and a cosheaf combined in a bisheaf. A new tool, the isobisheaf stack, provides functorial properties. The authors show the values are stable under small pertubation of maps. In conclusion a few examples are computed.