Repelling curvature via $\epsilon-$repelling Laplacian on positive connected signed graphs
Abstract
The paper defines a positive semidefinite operator called repelling Laplacian on a positive connected signed graph where is an arbitrary positive number less than a constant related to the graph's consensus problem. Then we investigate the upper bound of the second smallest eigenvalue of repelling Laplacian. Besides, we use the pseudoinverse of repelling Laplacian to construct a simplex as well as 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 repelling curvature and derive the corresponding Lichnerowicz inequalities on any positive connected signed graph. Moreover, it turns out that edge repelling curvature is no more than the Lin-Lu-Yau curvature of the underlying graph whose transport cost is 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}
}