Hyperplane Restrictions of Indecomposable $n$-Dimensional Persistence Modules

Abstract

Understanding the structure of indecomposable $n$-dimensional persistence modules is a difficult problem, yet is foundational for studying multipersistence. To this end, Buchet and Escolar showed that any finitely presented rectangular $(n-1)$-dimensional persistence module with finite support is a hyperplane restriction of an $n$-dimensional persistence module. We extend this result to the following: If $M$ is any finitely presented $(n-1)$-dimensional persistence module with finite support, then there exists an indecomposable $n$-dimensional persistence module $M'$ such that $M$ is the restriction of $M'$ to a hyperplane. We also show that any finite zigzag persistence module is the restriction of some indecomposable $3$-dimensional persistence module to a path.