Persistent cohomology operations and Gromov-Hausdorff estimates

We establish the foundations of the theory of persistent cohomology operations, derive decomposition formulas for wedge sums and products, and prove their Gromov-Hausdorff stability. We use these results to construct pairs of Riemannian pseudomanifolds for which the Gromov-Hausdorff estimates derived from persistent cohomology operations are strictly sharper than those obtained using persistent homology.