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Doubling constants and spectral theory on graphs

Combinatorics 2021-11-18 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study the least doubling constant among all possible doubling measures defined on a (finite or infinite) graph GG. We show that this constant can be estimated from below by 1+r(AG)1+ r(A_G), where r(AG)r(A_G) is the spectral radius of the adjacency matrix of GG, and study when both quantities coincide. We also illustrate how amenability of the automorphism group of a graph can be related to finding doubling minimizers. Finally, we give a complete characterization of graphs with doubling constant smaller than 3, in the spirit of Smith graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09199,
  title  = {Doubling constants and spectral theory on graphs},
  author = {Estibalitz Durand-Cartagena and Javier Soria and Pedro Tradacete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09199},
  year   = {2021}
}
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