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The scale and complexity of modern data sets and the limitations associated with testing large numbers of hypotheses underline the need for feature selection methods. Spectral techniques rank features according to their degree of…

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Simplicial complexes are generalizations of graphs that describe higher-order network interactions among nodes in the graph. Network dynamics described by graph Laplacian flows have been widely studied in network science and control theory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Tyler Summers

We study the Laplace operator with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition on polygons in the Euclidean plane. We prove that almost every simply connected polygon with at least four vertices has simple spectrum. We also address the more…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-19 Luc Hillairet , Chris Judge

We study the $p$-independence of spectra of Laplace operators on graphs arising from regular Dirichlet forms on discrete spaces. Here, a sufficient criterion is given solely by a uniform subexponential growth condition. Moreover, under a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Frank Bauer , Bobo Hua , Matthias Keller

Lattice structures play a central role in spectral graph theory, offering analytical insight into diffusion, synchronization, and transport processes on regular discrete spaces. While their spectral properties are completely characterized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Eleonora Andreotti

Simplicial complexes constitute the underlying topology of interacting complex systems including among the others brain and social interaction networks. They are generalized network structures that allow to go beyond the framework of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-02 Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

As a discretization of the Hodge Laplacian, the combinatorial Laplacian of simplicial complexes has garnered significant attention. In this paper, we study combinatorial Laplacians for complex pairs $(X, A)$, where $A$ is a subcomplex of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Xiongfeng Zhan , Xueyi Huang , Lu Lu

In this paper, we will investigate a harmonic cycle (discrete harmonic form). With a CW-complex, we can construct the combinatorial Laplacian operator. The kernel of the operator is the harmonic space, the set of harmonic cycles, and is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Younng-Jin Kim

In this work we introduce a concept of complexity for undirected graphs in terms of the spectral analysis of the Laplacian operator defined by the incidence matrix of the graph. Precisely, we compute the norm of the vector of eigenvalues of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Diego M. Mateos , Federico Morana , Hugo Aimar

A notion of up and down Grover walks on simplicial complexes are proposed and their properties are investigated. These are abstract Szegedy walks, which is a special kind of unitary operators on a Hilbert space. The operators introduced in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Xin Luo , Tatsuya Tate

We introduce the signless 1-Laplacians and the dual Cheeger constants on simplicial complexes. The connection of its spectrum to the combinatorial properties like independence number, chromatic number and dual Cheeger constant is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Xin Luo , Dong Zhang

We give a construction of a class of magnetic Laplacian operators on finite directed graphs. We study some general combinatorial and algebraic properties of operators in this class before applying the Harrell-Stubbe Averaged Variational…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-05 John Dever

Given a finite simple graph $G$ on $m$ vertices, the zeon combinatorial Laplacian $\Lambda$ of $G$ is an $m\times m$ graph having entries in the complex zeon algebra $\mathbb{C}\mathfrak{Z}$. It is shown here that if the graph has a unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 G. Stacey Staples

Theoretical development and applications of graph signal processing (GSP) have attracted much attention. In classical GSP, the underlying structures are restricted in terms of dimensionality. A graph is a combinatorial object that models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Feng Ji , Giacomo Kahn , Wee Peng Tay

The $p$-Laplacian for graphs, as well as the vertex Laplace operator and the hyperedge Laplace operator for the general setting of oriented hypergraphs, are generalized. In particular, both a vertex $p$-Laplacian and a hyperedge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Jürgen Jost , Raffaella Mulas , Dong Zhang

A metrized graph is a compact singular 1-manifold endowed with a metric. A given metrized graph can be modelled by a family of weighted combinatorial graphs. If one chooses a sequence of models from this family such that the vertices become…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 X. W. C. Faber

We consider the spectrum of the Laplace operator acting on $\mathcal{L}^p$ over a conformally compact manifold for $1 \leq p \leq \infty$. We prove that for $p \neq 2$ this spectrum always contains an open region of the complex plane. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Nelia Charalambous , Julie Rowlett

Network topology is a flourishing interdisciplinary subject that is relevant for different disciplines including quantum gravity and brain research. The discrete topological objects that are investigated in network topology are simplicial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Marcus Reitz , Ginestra Bianconi

We establish a symmetrization procedure in a context of general orthogonal expansions associated with a second order differential operator $L$, a `Laplacian'. Combined with a unified conjugacy scheme furnished in our earlier article it…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Adam Nowak , Krzysztof Stempak

We define the Laplacian operator on finite multicomplexes and give a formula for its spectra in the case of shifted multicomplexes.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Jan Snellman