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The present paper develops a variational theory of discrete fields defined on abstract cellular complexes. The discrete formulation is derived solely from a variational principle associated to a discrete Lagrangian density on a discrete…

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Laplacian operators are classical objects that are fundamental in both pure and applied mathematics and are becoming increasingly prominent in modern computational and data science fields such as applied and computational topology and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Arne Wolf , Jiyu Fan , Anthea Monod

We introduce the notion of discrete cusp for a weighted graph. In this context, we provethat the form-domain of the magnetic Laplacian and that of thenon-magnetic Laplacian can be different. We establish the emptiness of the essential…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Sylvain Golénia , Françoise Truc

Recently, much of the existing work in manifold learning has been done under the assumption that the data is sampled from a manifold without boundaries and singularities or that the functions of interest are evaluated away from such points.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-11-29 Mikhail Belkin , Qichao Que , Yusu Wang , Xueyuan Zhou

We construct an explicit representation of the algebra of local diffeomorphisms of a manifold with realistic dimensions. This is achieved in the setting of a general approach to the (quantum) dynamics of a physical system which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Aldaya , J. L. Jaramillo

We define an infinite class of unitary transformations between position and momentum fractional spaces, thus generalizing the Fourier transform to a special class of fractal geometries. Each transform diagonalizes a unique Laplacian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli

We develop physically admissible lattice models in the harmonic approximation which define by Hamilton's variational principle fractional Laplacian matrices of the forms of power law matrix functions on the n -dimensional periodic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 T. M. Michelitsch , B. A. Collet , A. P. Riascos , A. F. Nowakowski , F. C. G. A. Nicolleau

This paper uses the technology of weighted and regular triangulations to study discrete versions of the Laplacian on piecewise Euclidean manifolds. Regular triangulations are studied in some detail, including flip algorithms. The Laplacian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Glickenstein

We consider the quantum mechanical hamiltonian of two, space indexed, hermitean matrices. By introducing matrix valued polar coordinates, we obtain the form of the laplacian acting on invariant states. For potentials depending only on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-05 Mthokozisi Masuku , João P. Rodrigues

We present a geometric variational discretization of nonlinear elasticity in 2D and 3D in the Lagrangian description. A main step in our construction is the definition of discrete deformation gradients and discrete Cauchy-Green deformation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 François Demoures , François Gay-Balmaz

In this paper we prove characterizations of the discrete Besov spaces in terms of the heat and Poisson semigroups associated with the discrete Laplacian that will allow us to prove regularity results for the fractional powers of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Luciano Abadias , Marta De León-Contreras , Alejandro Mahillo

Group lattices (Cayley digraphs) of a discrete group are in natural correspondence with differential calculi on the group. On such a differential calculus geometric structures can be introduced following general recipes of noncommutative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Aristophanes Dimakis , Folkert Muller-Hoissen

In this Thesis we develop the geometric formulations for higher-order autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, and second-order field theories. In all cases, the physical information of the system is given in terms of a Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez

The spectral dimension is an indicator of geometry and topology of spacetime and a tool to compare the description of quantum geometry in various approaches to quantum gravity. This is possible because it can be defined not only on smooth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-19 Gianluca Calcagni , Daniele Oriti , Johannes Thürigen

We present a discrete form of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for quantum gravitation, based on the lattice formulation due to Regge. In this setup the infinite-dimensional manifold of 3-geometries is replaced by a space of three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-07 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

As key subjects in spectral geometry and combinatorial graph theory respectively, the (continuous) Hodge Laplacian and the combinatorial Laplacian share similarities in revealing the topological dimension and geometric shape of data and in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Emily Ribando-Gros , Rui Wang , Jiahui Chen , Yiying Tong , Guo-Wei Wei

We introduce, for the first time, a Bochner integral formula for the logarithmic Laplacian on any complete Riemannian manifold. This unified framework recovers the classical pointwise expression on Euclidean space and allows us to define…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Rui Chen

We investigate the functional determinant of the laplacian on piece-wise flat two-dimensional surfaces, with conical singularities in the interior and/or corners on the boundary. Our results extend earlier investigations of the determinants…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Erik Aurell , Per Salomonson

After motivating the need of a multiscale version of fractional calculus in quantum gravity, we review current proposals and the program to be carried out in order to reach a viable definition of scale-dependent fractional operators. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Gianluca Calcagni

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

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