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We survey recent results on graphs and their Laplacians related to the behavior of the graph at large. In particular, we focus on Liouville theorems, recurrence and characterizations of Dirichlet forms via boundary terms.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Matthias Keller , Daniel Lenz , Marcel Schmidt

I discuss the work of many authors on various matrices used to study signed graphs, concentrating on adjacency and incidence matrices and the closely related topics of Kirchhoff (`Laplacian') matrices, line graphs, and very strong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Thomas Zaslavsky

An oriented hypergraph is an oriented incidence structure that generalizes and unifies graph and hypergraph theoretic results by examining its locally signed graphic substructure. In this paper we obtain a combinatorial characterization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Gina Chen , Vivian Liu , Ellen Robinson , Lucas J. Rusnak , Kyle Wang

Motivated by discrete Laplacian differential operators with various accuracy orders in numerical analysis, we introduce new matrices attached to a simple graph that can be considered graph Laplacians with higher accuracy. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Mary Yoon

We study the Laplacian on family preserving metric graphs. These are graphs that have a certain symmetry that, as we show, allows for a decomposition into a direct sum of one-dimensional operators whose properties are explicitly related to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Jonathan Breuer , Netanel Levi

The spectrum of the normalized graph Laplacian yields a very comprehensive set of invariants of a graph. In order to understand the information contained in those invariants better, we systematically investigate the behavior of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Anirban Banerjee , Jürgen Jost

This paper is a continuation and an extension of our recent work [3] on the geometric structures of Laplacian eigenfunctions and their applications to inverse scattering problems. In [3], the analytic behaviour of the Laplacian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Xinlin Cao , Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Jun Zou

For a finite graph, we establish natural isomorphisms between eigenspaces of a Laplace operator acting on functions on the edges and eigenspaces of a transfer operator acting on functions on one-sided infinite non-backtracking paths.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Christian Arends , Jan Frahm , Joachim Hilgert

We propose a framework for the visualization of directed networks relying on the eigenfunctions of the magnetic Laplacian, called here Magnetic Eigenmaps. The magnetic Laplacian is a complex deformation of the well-known combinatorial…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Michaël Fanuel , Carlos M. Alaíz , Ángela Fernández , Johan A. K. Suykens

Learning a graph with a specific structure is essential for interpretability and identification of the relationships among data. It is well known that structured graph learning from observed samples is an NP-hard combinatorial problem. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-26 Sandeep Kumar , Jiaxi Ying , Jos'e Vin'icius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

We introduce QuaterGCN, a spectral Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) with quaternion-valued weights at whose core lies the Quaternionic Laplacian, a quaternion-valued Laplacian matrix by whose proposal we generalize two widely-used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Stefano Fiorini , Stefano Coniglio , Michele Ciavotta , Enza Messina

The eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian of a graph provide information on its topological and structural characteristics and also on some relevant dynamical aspects, specifically in relation to random walks. In this paper we determine…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Pinchen Xie , Zhongzhi Zhang , Francesc Comellas

In this paper, we develop a novel weighted Laplacian method, which is partially inspired by the theory of graph Laplacian, to study recent popular graph problems, such as multilevel graph partitioning and balanced minimum cut problem, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijie Xu , Jiayan Fang , Xiang-Yang Li

Networks with a prescribed power-law scaling in the spectrum of the graph Laplacian can be generated by evolutionary optimization. The Laplacian spectrum encodes the dynamical behavior of many important processes. Here, the networks are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-28 Steffen Karalus , Joachim Krug

We apply eigenvalue interlacing techniques for obtaining lower and upper bounds for the sums of Laplacian eigenvalues of graphs, and characterize equality. This leads to generalizations of, and variations on theorems by Grone, and Grone and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-20 A. Abiad , M. A. Fiol , W. H. Haemers , G. Perarnau

Hypergraphs extend traditional graphs by enabling the representation of N-ary relationships through higher-order edges. Akin to a common approach of deriving graph Laplacians, we define function spaces and corresponding symmetric products…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jo Andersson Stokke , Ronny Bergmann , Martin Hanik , Christoph von Tycowicz

While topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for structural inference, its foundational tools, notably persistent homology and the persistent Laplacian, are frequently insensitive to localized structural fluctuations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng , Kefeng Liu

The standard notion of the Laplacian of a graph is generalized to the setting of a graph with the extra structure of a ``transmission`` system. A transmission system is a mathematical representation of a means of transmitting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Sylvain E. Cappell , Edward Y. Miller

We consider the problem of inferring the unobserved edges of a graph from data supported on its nodes. In line with existing approaches, we propose a convex program for recovering a graph Laplacian that is approximately diagonalizable by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-16 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel framework to infer the sheaf Laplacian, including the topology of a graph and the restriction maps, from a set of data observed over the nodes of a graph. The proposed method is based on sheaf…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Leonardo Di Nino , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo