Interleaving Mayer-Vietoris spectral sequences

Abstract

We discuss the Mayer-Vietoris spectral sequence as an invariant in the context of persistent homology. In particular, we introduce the notion of $\epsilon$-acyclic carriers and $\epsilon$-acyclic equivalences between filtered regular CW-complexes and study stability conditions for the associated spectral sequences. We also look at the Mayer-Vietoris blowup complex and the geometric realization, finding stability properties under compatible noise; as a result we prove a version of an approximate nerve theorem. Adapting work by Serre we find conditions under which $\epsilon$-interleavings exist between the spectral sequences associated to two different covers.

33 pages, 9 figures. Fixed typo in acknowledgements section

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