{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/on-interval-decomposability-of-2d-persistence","title":"On Interval Decomposability of 2D Persistence Modules","arxiv_id":"1812.05261","date":"2018-12-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Hideto Asashiba","Mickaël Buchet","Emerson G. Escolar","Ken Nakashima","Michio Yoshiwaki"],"abstract":"In the persistent homology of filtrations, the indecomposable decompositions provide the persistence diagrams. However, in almost all cases of multidimensional persistence, the classification of all indecomposable modules is known to be a wild problem. One direction is to consider the subclass of interval-decomposable persistence modules, which are direct sums of interval representations. We introduce the definition of pre-interval representations, a more natural algebraic definition, and study the relationships between pre-interval, interval, and indecomposable thin representations. We show that over the ``equioriented'' commutative $2$D grid, these concepts are equivalent. Moreover, we provide a criterion for determining whether or not an $n$D persistence module is interval/pre-interval/thin-decomposable without having to explicitly compute decompositions. For $2$D persistence modules, we provide an algorithm together with a worst-case complexity analysis that uses the total number of intervals in an equioriented commutative $2$D grid. We also propose several heuristics to speed up the computation.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05261v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.05261v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"on-interval-decomposability-of-2d-persistence","repo_url":"https://github.com/emerson-escolar/pmgap","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"GPL-3.0"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1812.05261","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}