Ephemeral persistence features and the stability of filtered chain complexes

arXiv2208.11770MaRDI QIDQ6507982FDOQ6507982

Abstract: We strengthen the usual stability theorem for Vietoris-Rips (VR) persistent homology of finite metric spaces by building upon constructions due to Usher and Zhang in the context of filtered chain complexes. The information present at the level of filtered chain complexes includes points with zero persistence which provide additional information to that present at homology level. The resulting invariant, called verbose barcode, which has a stronger discriminating power than the usual barcode, is proved to be stable under certain metrics which are sensitive to these ephemeral points. We also exhibit several examples of finite metric spaces with identical (standard) VR barcodes yet with different verbose VR barcodes thus confirming that these ephemeral points strengthen the standard VR barcode.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Chain complexes in algebraic topology (55U15)

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