1) The paper presents a method to approximate the Vietoris-Rips filtration using a zigzag filtration of linear size.
2) It embeds the zigzag filtration into an equivalent standard filtration and perturbs the metric so that the zigzag does not occur at the homology level.
3) This results in a zigzag filtration of size O(n) whose persistence diagram provides a (1+ε)-approximation of the persistence diagram for the Vietoris-Rips filtration.