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The {\it Sierpi\'nski fractal} or {\it Sierpi\'nski gasket} $\Sigma$ is a familiar object studied by specialists in dynamical systems and probability. In this paper, we consider a graph $S_n$ derived from the first $n$ iterations of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Alberto M. Teguia , Anant P. Godbole

In the case of some fractals, sampling with average values on cells is more natural than sampling on points. In this paper we investigate this method of sampling on $SG$ and $SG_{3}$. In the former, we show that the cell graph…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Robert J. Ravier , Robert S. Strichartz

This paper presents the graphic representation in the z-plane of the first three iterations of the algorithm that generates the Sierpinski Gasket. It analyzes the influence of the f(z) map when we represent fractal images.

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2009-03-25 Laura Stefan

The first part of this paper deals with electrical networks and symplectic reductions. We consider two operations on electrical networks (the "trace map" and the "gluing map") and show that they correspond to symplectic reductions. We also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christophe Sabot

Periodic eigendecomposition, to be formulated in this paper, is a numerical method to compute Floquet spectrum and Floquet vectors along periodic orbits in a dynamical system. It is rooted in numerical algorithms advances in computation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-31 Xiong Ding , Predrag Cvitanović

The Sierpinski Triangle (ST) is a fractal mathematical structure that has been used to explore the emergence of flat bands in lattices of different geometries and dimensions in condensed matter. Here we look into fractal features in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 L. L. Lage , A. Latge

We prove versions of the strong Sz\"ego limit theorem for certain classes of pseudodifferential operators defined on the Sierpi\'nski gasket. Our results used in a fundamental way the existence of localized eigenfunctions for the Laplacian…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-20 Marius Ionescu , Kasso A. Okoudjou , Luke G. Rogers

We construct Dirac operators and spectral triples for certain, not necessarily self-similar, fractal sets built on curves. Connes' distance formula of noncommutative geometry provides a natural metric on the fractal. To motivate the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Michel L. Lapidus , Jonathan J. Sarhad

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

Fueled by many applications in random processes, imaging science, geophysics, etc., fractional Laplacians have recently received significant attention. The key driving force behind the success of this operator is its ability to capture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Harbir Antil , Patrick Dondl , Ludwig Striet

This paper develops a closed-form spectral decomposition framework for the Gramian matrices of discrete-time linear dynamical systems. The main results provide explicit decompositions of the discrete-time controllability Gramian and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Alexey Iskakov

We introduce a new measure of complexity (called spectral complexity) for directed graphs. We start with splitting of the directed graph into its recurrent and non-recurrent parts. We define the spectral complexity metric in terms of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Igor Mezić , Vladimir A. Fonoberov , Maria Fonoberova , Tuhin Sahai

A spectral decomposition method is used to obtain solutions to a class of nonlinear differential equations. We extend this approach to the analysis of the fractional form of these equations and demonstrate the method by applying it to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Malgorzata Turalska , Bruce J. West

We give more details about an integrable system in which the Dirac operator D=d+d^* on a finite simple graph G or Riemannian manifold M is deformed using a Hamiltonian system D'=[B,h(D)] with B=d-d^* + i b. The deformed operator D(t) = d(t)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Oliver Knill

We first develop a general framework for Laplace operators defined in terms of the combinatorial structure of a simplicial complex. This includes, among others, the graph Laplacian, the combinatorial Laplacian on simplicial complexes, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Danijela Horak , Jürgen Jost

We introduce hybrid fractals as a class of fractals constructed by gluing several fractal pieces in a specific manner and study energy forms and Laplacians on them. We consider in particular a hybrid based on the $3$-level Sierpinski…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Patricia Alonso Ruiz , Yuming Chen , Haotian Gu , Robert S. Strichartz , Zirui Zhou

We study the spectrum and dynamics of a one-dimensional discrete Dirac operator in a random potential obtained by damping an i.i.d. environment with an envelope of type $n^{-\alpha}$ for $\alpha>0$. We recover all the spectral regimes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Olivier Bourget , Gregorio R. Moreno Flores , Amal Taarabt

Arnold, Falk, & Winther, in "Finite element exterior calculus, homological techniques, and applications" (2006), show how to geometrically decompose the full and trimmed polynomial spaces on simplicial elements into direct sums of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Toby Isaac

We investigate the iterative construction of discrete Laplacians on 2D square lattices, revealing emergent fractal-like patterns shaped by modular arithmetic. While classical 2222-style iterations reproduce known structures such as the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Małgorzata Nowak-Kępczyk

In this paper, we provide the spectral decomposition in Hilbert space of the $\mathcal{C}_0$-semigroup $P$ and its adjoint $\hatP$ having as generator, respectively, the Caputo and the right-sided Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Pierre Patie , Yixuan Zhao