Computing Persistence Diagram Bundles

Abstract

Persistence diagram (PD) bundles, a generalization of vineyards, were introduced as a way to study the persistent homology of a set of filtrations parameterized by a topological space $B$. In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing piecewise-linear PD bundles, a wide class that includes many of the PD bundles that one may encounter in practice. Full details are given for the case in which $B$ is a triangulated surface, and we outline the generalization to higher dimensions and other cases.