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Repelling curvature via $\epsilon-$repelling Laplacian on positive connected signed graphs

Spectral Theory 2026-04-14 v1

Abstract

The paper defines a positive semidefinite operator called ϵ\epsilon-repelling Laplacian on a positive connected signed graph where ϵ\epsilon is an arbitrary positive number less than a constant ϵ0\epsilon_0 related to the graph's consensus problem. Then we investigate the upper bound of the second smallest eigenvalue of ϵ\epsilon-repelling Laplacian. Besides, we use the pseudoinverse of ϵ\epsilon-repelling Laplacian to construct a simplex as well as ϵ\epsilon-repelling cost whose square root turns out to be a distance among the vertices of the simplex. We also extend the node and edge resistance curvature proposed by K.Devriendt et al. to node and edge ϵ\epsilon-repelling curvature and derive the corresponding Lichnerowicz inequalities on any positive connected signed graph. Moreover, it turns out that edge ϵ\epsilon-repelling curvature is no more than the Lin-Lu-Yau curvature of the underlying graph whose transport cost is ϵ\epsilon-repelling cost rather than the length of the shortest path.

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@article{arxiv.2506.10492,
  title  = {Repelling curvature via $\epsilon-$repelling Laplacian on positive connected signed graphs},
  author = {Yong Lin and Shi Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10492},
  year   = {2026}
}