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The Jordan type of a multiparameter persistence module

Representation Theory 2025-10-28 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Let P\mathscr{P} be a poset and S\mathcal{S} a sequence of nn finite substes of P\mathscr{P}. The Jordan type of a P\mathscr{P}-persistence module MM at S\mathcal{S}, denoted by JS(M)Nn\mathsf{J}_{\mathcal{S}}(M) \in \mathbb{N}^n, is defined as the Jordan type of a nilpotent operator TM,S\mathbf{T}_{M, \mathcal{S}}, which is constructed from MM and S\mathcal{S}. When n=2n=2, we recover the notion of multirank previously introduced and studied in [Tho19]. We first prove that the multirank invariants are complete for persistence modules over finite zigzag posets. This proves a conjecture of Thomas in the zigzag case. The nilpotent operator TM,S\mathbf{T}_{M, \mathcal{S}} is functorial in MM. When P=Zd\mathscr{P}=\mathbb{Z}^d or Rd\mathbb{R}^d, this functoriality allows us to define the Jordan filtered rank invariant of MM at S\mathscr{S}. We demonstrate that these invariants are strictly finer than the classical rank invariants. We next prove that for any two P\mathscr{P}-persistence modules MM and NN, the landscape and erosion distances between their Jordan filtered rank invariants are bounded from above by the interleaving distance between MM and NN.

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@article{arxiv.2510.22116,
  title  = {The Jordan type of a multiparameter persistence module},
  author = {Calin Chindris and Min Hyeok Kang and Daniel Kline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22116},
  year   = {2025}
}
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