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Persistent Local Systems

Algebraic Topology 2021-07-07 v4

Abstract

In this paper, we give lower bounds for the homology of the fibers of a map to a manifold. Using new sheaf theoretic methods, we show that these lower bounds persist over whole open sets of the manifold, and that they are stable under perturbations of the map. This generalizes certain ideas of persistent homology to higher dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02539,
  title  = {Persistent Local Systems},
  author = {Robert MacPherson and Amit Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02539},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This is the final version of the paper. It appears in Advances in Mathematics