Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We develop a general framework for constructing pseudometrics on objects of Abelian categories using valuations, which assign non-negative costs to morphisms. Specializing to finitely presented vector space representations of the poset $[0,\infty)^\ell$, a natural setting for multiparameter persistence modules, we show that a large class of these distances is governed by contours, right-continuous lax actions of $[0,\infty)$ on the parameter poset. Properties of contours translate into geometric properties of the induced distances, including conditions under which the resulting pseudometrics are metrics and allowing us to identify a rich family of compact subsets of finitely presented representations.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Subfield: Computational Theory and Mathematics
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7203680169
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