
We introduce and study A-infinity persistence of a given homology filtration of topological spaces. This is a family, one for each n > 0, of homological invariants which provide information not readily available by the (persistent) Betti numbers of the given filtration. This may help to detect noise, not just in the simplicial structure of the filtration but in further geometrical properties in which the higher codiagonals of the A-infinity structure are translated. Based in the classification of zigzag modules, a characterization of the A-infinity persistence in terms of its associated barcode is given.
22 pages, no figures. In versions 2 and 3, we added our e-mail addresses and made some minor corrections, thanks to Jim Stasheff
Computational Geometry (cs.CG), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, FOS: Mathematics, 500, Computer Science - Computational Geometry, Algebraic Topology (math.AT), Mathematics - Algebraic Topology, 510
Computational Geometry (cs.CG), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, FOS: Mathematics, 500, Computer Science - Computational Geometry, Algebraic Topology (math.AT), Mathematics - Algebraic Topology, 510
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