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The question whether one can recover the shape of a geometric object from its Laplacian spectrum ('hear the shape of the drum') is a classical problem in spectral geometry with a broad range of implications and applications. While…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Luca Cosmo , Mikhail Panine , Arianna Rampini , Maks Ovsjanikov , Michael M. Bronstein , Emanuele Rodolà

We propose a novel robust decentralized graph clustering algorithm that is provably equivalent to the popular spectral clustering approach. Our proposed method uses the existing wave equation clustering algorithm that is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Hongyu Zhu , Stefan Klus , Tuhin Sahai

Fractal geometries, characterized by self-similar patterns and non-integer dimensions, provide an intriguing platform for exploring topological phases of matter. In this work, we introduce a theoretical framework that leverages isospectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. Eek , Z. F. Osseweijer , C. Morais Smith

We consider the spectral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and study a basic linear problem involving this operator and singular forcing. In two dimensions, we introduce an appropriate weak formulation in fractional Sobolev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We address in this work the question of the discretization of two-dimensional periodic Dirac Hamiltonians. Standard finite differences methods on rectangular grids are plagued with the so-called Fermion doubling problem, which creates…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 H. Chen , O. Pinaud , M. Tahir

This paper introduces a notion of differential forms on closed, potentially fractal, subsets of Euclidean space by defining pointwise cotangent spaces using the restriction of $C^1$ functions to this set. Aspects of cohomology are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Daniel J. Kelleher

When information is spatially repeated in self-similar fractal beam patterns, only a portion of the diffracted beam is needed to reconstruct the kernel data. What is unique to a fractal-encoding scheme is that the image demultiplexing…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-01 Xiaojing Weng , Luat T. Vuong

In this paper, we give a review of fractal calculus which is an expansion of standard calculus. Fractal calculus is applied for functions which are not differentiable or integrable on totally disconnected fractal sets such as middle-$\mu$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Cemil Tunc , Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh

A macroscopic characterization of fractals showing up a structural transition from dense to multibranched growth is made using optical diffraction theory. Such fractals are generated via the numerical solution of the 2D Poisson and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Perez-Rodriguez , Wei Wang , E. Canessa

Some general properties of local $\zeta$-function procedures to renormalize some quantities in $D$-dimensional (Euclidean) Quantum Field Theory in curved background are rigorously discussed for positive scalar operators $-\Delta + V(x)$ in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Valter Moretti

A spectral approach to building the exterior calculus in manifold learning problems is developed. The spectral approach is shown to converge to the true exterior calculus in the limit of large data. Simultaneously, the spectral approach…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Tyrus Berry , Dimitrios Giannakis

We consider the basilica Julia set of the polynomial $P(z)=z^{2}-1$ and construct all possible resistance (Dirichlet) forms, and the corresponding Laplacians, for which the topology in the effective resistance metric coincides with the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Luke G. Rogers , Alexander Teplyaev

In this article, we provide the spectral analysis of a Dirac-type operator on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ by describing the behavior of the spectral shift function associated with a sign-definite trace-class perturbation by a multiplication operator. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Pablo Miranda , Daniel Parra , Georgi Raikov

We show that the position operator for a class of $f$-deformed oscillators has a fractal spectrum, homeomorphic to the Cantor set, via a unitary transformation to Harper's model. The class corresponds to a choice of ergodic operators for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 E. Sadurní , E. Rivera-Mociños

This paper extends the Hodge-de Rham theory of Aaron \textit{et al.} [Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. {\bf 13} (2014)] to higher-dimensional level-$l$ Sierpinski gaskets $SG_{\ell}^{n},$ providing a framework for analyzing differential forms and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Sze-Man Ngai , Shui-Hong Zhou

Exploiting the framework of peridynamics, a dimensionally-reduced plate formulation is developed that allows for the through-thickness nucleation and growth of fracture surfaces, enabling the treatment of delamination in a lower-dimensional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Riccardo Cavuoto , Arsenio Cutolo , Kaushik Dayal , Luca Deseri , Massimiliano Fraldi

In this paper we study spectral triples and non-commutative expectations associated to expanding and weakly expanding maps. In order to do so, we generalize the Perron-Frobenius-Ruelle theorem and obtain a polynomial decay of the operator,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Leandro Cioletti , L. Y. Hataishi , Artur O. Lopes , M. Stadlbauer

We survey recent developments in fractal analysis of regular and slow-fast dynamical systems using Minkowski dimension. Our focus is on spiral trajectories near monodromic limit periodic sets in regular systems and entry-exit sequences in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Renato Huzak , Goran Radunović , Vesna Županović

In this paper, we propose a new spectral decomposition method to simulate waves propagating in complicated waveguides. For the numerical solutions of waveguide scattering problems, an important task is to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Ruming Zhang

We develop a spectrally accurate numerical method to compute solutions of a model partial differential equation used in plasma physics to describe diffusion in velocity space due to Fokker-Planck collisions. The solution is represented as a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Jon Wilkening , Antoine Cerfon