Rigidity properties of the hypercube via Bakry-Emery curvature
Differential Geometry
2017-05-22 v1
Abstract
We give rigidity results for the discrete Bonnet-Myers diameter bound and the Lichnerowicz eigenvalue estimate. Both inequalities are sharp if and only if the underlying graph is a hypercube. The proofs use well-known semigroup methods as well as new direct methods which translate curvature to combinatorial properties. Our results can be seen as first known discrete analogues of Cheng's and Obata's rigidity theorems.
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@article{arxiv.1705.06789,
title = {Rigidity properties of the hypercube via Bakry-Emery curvature},
author = {Shiping Liu and Florentin Münch and Norbert Peyerimhoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06789},
year = {2017}
}
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29 pages, 8 figures