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We present the spectrum of the (normalized) graph Laplacian as a systematic tool for the investigation of networks, and we describe basic properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Processes of graph formation like motif joining or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-10-19 Anirban Banerjee , Jürgen Jost

In this article we consider the spectrum of a Laplacian matrix, also known as the Markov matrix, under the independence assumption. We assume that the entries have a variance profile. Motivated by recent works on generalized Wigner matrices…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Anirban Chatterjee , Rajat Subhra Hazra

Let $G$ be a simple connected undirected graph. The Laplacian spectral ratio of $G$, denoted by $R_L(G)$, is defined as the quotient between the largest and second smallest Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$, which is closely related to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Zhen Lin , Jiajia Wang , Min Cai

In a paper by Nishikawa and Motter, a quantity called the normalized spread of the Laplacian eigenvalues is used to measure the synchronizability of certain network dynamics. Through simulations, and without theoretical validation, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Susie Lu , John Urschel , Ji Liu

We propose a Laplacian based on general inner product spaces, which we call the inner product Laplacian. We show the combinatorial and normalized graph Laplacians, as well as other Laplacians for hypergraphs and directed graphs, are special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Sinan G. Aksoy , Stephen J. Young

In this paper, we study self-expanders for mean curvature flows. First we show the discreteness of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian on them. Next we give a universal lower bound of the bottom of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Xu Cheng , Detang Zhou

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

Determining the number of embeddings of Laman graph frameworks is an open problem which corresponds to understanding the solutions of the resulting systems of equations. In this paper we investigate the bounds which can be obtained from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-13 Reinhard Steffens , Thorsten Theobald

It is reported that dynamical systems over digraphs have superior performance in terms of system damping and tolerance to time delays if the underlying graph Laplacian has a purely real spectrum. This paper investigates the topological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Tianhao Yu , Shenglu Wang , Mengqi Xue , Yue Song , David J. Hill

On a finite connected metric graph, we establish upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian. These bounds depend on the length, the Betti number, and the number of pendant vertices. For trees, these estimates are sharp. We also…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Sinan Ariturk

Here we have investigated a few properties of the eigenvalues of normalized (geometric) graph Laplacian in different graphs. Preservation of eigenvalue 1 from a particular subgraph to the entire graph, the spectrum of the graph constructed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Anirban Banerjee

We study geometry of complete Riemannian manifolds endowed with a weighted measure, where the weight function is of quadratic growth. Assuming the associated Bakry-Emery curvature is bounded from below, we derive a new Laplacian comparison…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

We enumerate the connected graphs that contain a number of edges growing linearly with respect to the number of vertices. So far, only the first term of the asymptotics and a bound on the error were known. Using analytic combinatorics, ie…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Elie de Panafieu

We study the growth and isoperimetry of infinite clusters in slightly supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation on transitive nonamenable graphs under the $L^2$ boundedness condition ($p_c<p_{2\to 2}$). Surprisingly, we find that the volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Tom Hutchcroft

We consider Laplace operators on periodic discrete graphs perturbed by guides, i.e., graphs which are periodic in some directions and finite in other ones. The spectrum of the Laplacian on the unperturbed graph is a union of a finite number…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Evgeny Korotyaev , Natalia Saburova

A version of ``preferential attachment'' random graphs, corresponding to linear ``weights'' with random ``edge additions,'' which generalizes some previously considered models, is studied. This graph model is embedded in a continuous-time…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. B. Athreya , A. P. Ghosh , S. Sethuraman

We study the volume of the critical clusters for the percolation of the level sets of the Gaussian free field on metric graphs. On $\mathbb{Z}^d$ below the upper-critical dimension $d=6$, we show that the largest such cluster in a box of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Alexander Drewitz , Alexis Prévost , Pierre-François Rodriguez

We give a delocalization estimate for eigenfunctions of the discrete Laplacian on large $d+1$-regular graphs, showing that any subset of the graph supporting $\epsilon$ of the $L^2$ mass of an eigenfunction must be large. For graphs…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Shimon Brooks , Elon Lindenstrauss

A statistical theory of two-dimensional Laplacian growths is formulated from first-principles. First the area enclosed by the growing surface is mapped conformally to the interior of the unit circle, generating a set of dynamically evolving…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Raphael Blumenfeld

We present an analytical-numerical method providing robust upper estimates for the topological entropy or, more generally, uniform volume growth exponents of differentiable mappings. By introducing varying metrics, we simplify the analysis…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Mikhail Anikushin , Andrey Romanov