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Asymptotics of the graph Laplace operator near an isolated singularity

Differential Geometry 2026-01-07 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate asymptotics of the continuous graph Laplace operator on a smooth Riemannian manifold (M,g)(M,g) admitting an isolated singularity xx. We show that if the curvature function κ\kappa doesn't grow too fast near xx, then the graph Laplace operator at xx converges to the weighted Laplace-Beltrami operator as the bandwidth t0.t\downarrow 0. On the other hand, we also prove that if one locally modifies a given Riemannian metric across xx by a non-constant \textit{purely angular }conformal factor, then κ\kappa grows too fast and the graph Laplace operator behaves like O(1t)O(\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}) near xx, as t0t\downarrow 0, given a mild condition on the angular conformal factor. We provide the Taylor expansion of the graph Laplace operator as t0t\downarrow 0 in specific cases. Numerical simulations at the end illustrate our results.

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@article{arxiv.2512.13314,
  title  = {Asymptotics of the graph Laplace operator near an isolated singularity},
  author = {Susovan Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.13314},
  year   = {2026}
}

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