An ongoing research about the persistent homology of vector-valued functions

In this talk we will illustrate a new line of research concerning the persistent homology of regular functions from a closed manifold to R^2. In particular, we will describe the phenomenon of monodromy for 2D persistence diagrams, and a recent mathematical model based on the concepts of extended Pareto grid and coherent transport of matchings. Some new theoretical results and open problems will be presented.