The Jordan type of a multiparameter persistence module
Abstract
Let be a poset and a sequence of finite substes of . The Jordan type of a -persistence module at , denoted by , is defined as the Jordan type of a nilpotent operator , which is constructed from and . When , 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 is functorial in . When or , this functoriality allows us to define the Jordan filtered rank invariant of at . We demonstrate that these invariants are strictly finer than the classical rank invariants. We next prove that for any two -persistence modules and , the landscape and erosion distances between their Jordan filtered rank invariants are bounded from above by the interleaving distance between and .
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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}
}