Michael Lesnick

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  Algebraic Stability of Zigzag Persistence Modules
  Michael Lesnick
  The stability theorem for persistent homology is a central result in topological data analysis.
  While the original formulation of the result concerns the persistent homology of mathbb{R}-
  valued functions, the result was later cast in a more general algebraic form, in the language of
  persistence modules and interleavings. In this work, we establish an analogue of this algebraic
  stability theorem for zigzag persistence modules. To do so, we functorially extend each zigzag
  persistence module to a two-dimensional persistence module, and establish an algebraic stability
  theorem for these extensions. As an application of our main theorem, we strengthen a result of
  Bauer, Munch, and Wang on the stability of the persistent homology of Reeb graphs. Our main
  result also yields an alternative proof of the stability theorem for level set persistent homology of
  Carlsson et al.
  This is joint work with Magnus Botnan.