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We present progress on the problem of asymptotically describing the adjacency eigenvalues of random and complete uniform hypergraphs. There is a natural conjecture arising from analogy with random matrix theory that connects these spectra…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Joshua Cooper

Real-world network systems are inherently dynamic, with network topologies undergoing continuous changes over time. Previous works often focus on static networks or rely on complete prior knowledge of evolving topologies, whereas real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Chunyu Pan , Xizhe Zhang , Haoyu Zheng , Zhao Su , Changsheng Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the connectivity matrix of complex networks contain information about its topology and its collective behavior. In particular, the spectral density $\rho(\lambda)$ of this matrix reveals important network…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. M. de Aguiar , Y. Bar-Yam

Today, complex networks have attracted increasing attention from various fields of science and engineering. It has been demonstrated that many complex networks display various synchronization phenomena. In this paper, we introduce a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Jinhu Lu , Guanrong Chen

The eigenvalues of the transmission matrix provide the basis for a full description of the statistics of steady-state transmission and conductance. At the same time, the ability to excite the sample with the waveform of specific…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-25 Zhou Shi , Azriel Z. Genack

The spectrum of a network or graph $G=(V,E)$ with adjacency matrix $A$, consists of the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian $L= I - D^{-1/2} A D^{-1/2}$. This set of eigenvalues encapsulates many aspects of the structure of the graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-06 David Cohen-Steiner , Weihao Kong , Christian Sohler , Gregory Valiant

In graph signal processing, the graph adjacency matrix or the graph Laplacian commonly define the shift operator. The spectral decomposition of the shift operator plays an important role in that the eigenvalues represent frequencies and the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Stephen Kruzick , Jose M. F. Moura

We describe some numerical experiments which determine the degree of spectral instability of medium size randomly generated matrices which are far from self-adjoint. The conclusion is that the eigenvalues are likely to be intrinsically…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E B Davies

It is common knowledge that a key dynamical characteristic of a network is its spectrum (the collection of all eigenvalues of the network's weighted adjacency matrix). In \cite{BW10} we demonstrated that it is possible to reduce a network,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Leonid Bunimovich , Benjamin Webb

We study structure, eigenvalue spectra and diffusion dynamics in a wide class of networks with subgraphs (modules) at mesoscopic scale. The networks are grown within the model with three parameters controlling the number of modules, their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-25 Marija Mitrović , Bosiljka Tadić

In this paper we present a general procedure that allows for the reduction or expansion of any network (considered as a weighted graph). This procedure maintains the spectrum of the network's adjacency matrix up to a set of eigenvalues…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-11-15 L. A. Bunimovich , B. Z. Webb

Distributed decision making in multi-agent networks has recently attracted significant research attention thanks to its wide applicability, e.g. in the management and optimization of computer networks, power systems, robotic teams, sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Carlo Cenedese , Yu Kawano , Sergio Grammatico , Ming Cao

Many natural and social systems develop complex networks, that are usually modelled as random graphs. The eigenvalue spectrum of these graphs provides information about their structural properties. While the semi-circle law is known to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Illes J. Farkas , Imre Derenyi , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Tamas Vicsek

Random matrix theory is finding an increasing number of applications in the context of information theory and communication systems, especially in studying the properties of complex networks. Such properties include short-term and long-term…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Sherif M. Abuelenin , Adel Y. Abul-Magd

We study the controllability of the differential Lyapunov equation under isospectral rotation of a linear gradient field. Specifically, control is effected by a symmetric time-varying gain-matrix constrained to have fixed eigenvalues; that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Ralph Sabbagh , Tryphon T. Georgiou

While social robots are developed to provide assistance to users through social interactions, their behaviors are dominantly pre-programmed and remote-controlled. Despite the numerous robot control architectures being developed, very few…

Field-based reactive control provides a minimalist, decentralized route to guiding robots that lack onboard computation. Such schemes are well suited to resource-limited machines like microrobots, yet implementation artifacts, limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 William H. Reinhardt , Marc Z. Miskin

Affinity has proven to be a useful tool for quantifying the non-equilibrium character of time continuous Markov processes since it serves as a measure for the breaking of time reversal symmetry. It has recently been conjectured that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-27 Matthias Uhl , Udo Seifert

We study the spectrum of a random matrix, whose elements depend on the Euclidean distance between points randomly distributed in space. This problem is widely studied in the context of the Instantaneous Normal Modes of fluids and is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Mezard , G. Parisi , A. Zee

Recent works have established a novel viewpoint that treats the eigenvalue spectra of disordered quantum systems as time-series, and corresponding algorithms such as singular-value-decomposition has proven its advantage in studying subtle…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-07 Qiaomu Xue , Wenjia Rao