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We study a graph-theoretic approach to the $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ performance of leader following consensus dynamics on directed and undirected graphs. We first provide graph-theoretic bounds on the system $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ norm of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Mohammad Pirani , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

Developing non-perturbative methods to reveal exotic properties of strongly correlated fermionic systems remains one of the most essential tasks of theoretical physics. Tensor network methods with Grassmann algebra offer powerful numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 Jian-Gang Kong , Jia-Ji Zhu , Z. Y. Xie

We study the correspondence between Bayesian Networks and graphical representation of proofs in linear logic. The goal of this paper is threefold: to develop a proof-theoretical account of Bayesian inference (in the spirit of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rémi Di Guardia , Thomas Ehrhard , Jérôme Evrard , Claudia Faggian

We extend previous work on injectivity in chemical reaction networks to general interaction networks. Matrix- and graph-theoretic conditions for injectivity of these systems are presented. A particular signed, directed, labelled, bipartite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-15 Murad Banaji , Gheorghe Craciun

Complex networks or graphs are ubiquitous in sciences and engineering: biological networks, brain networks, transportation networks, social networks, and the World Wide Web, to name a few. Spectral graph theory provides a set of useful…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay , Kaijun Wang

Many optimization, inference and learning tasks can be accomplished efficiently by means of decentralized processing algorithms where the network topology (i.e., the graph) plays a critical role in enabling the interactions among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Vincenzo Matta , Augusto Santos , Ali H. Sayed

Graphs are used in many disciplines to model the relationships that exist between objects in a complex discrete system. Researchers may wish to compare a network of interest to a "typical" graph from a family (or ensemble) of graphs which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Catherine Greenhill

This work is devoted to the study of the relationships between graph theory and the qualitative analysis of ordinary differential equations, with a special focus on two-dimensional systems. In particular, we reinterpret classical results…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Marcos Masip

One of the challenging problems in the condensed matter physics is to understand the quantum many-body systems, especially, their physical mechanisms behind. Since there are only a few complete analytical solutions of these systems, several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jozef Genzor , Tomotoshi Nishino , Andrej Gendiar

Many physical systems--from mechanical lattices and electrical circuits to biological tissues and architected metamaterials--can be understood as networks transmitting physical quantities. We present a unified mathematical framework for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-07 José M. Ortiz-Tavárez , William Stephenson , Xiaoming Mao

Dynamic graph learning has gained significant attention as it offers a powerful means to model intricate interactions among entities across various real-world and scientific domains. Notably, graphs serve as effective representations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard

We study the limit theory of large threshold graphs and apply this to a variety of models for random threshold graphs. The results give a nice set of examples for the emerging theory of graph limits.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-19 Persi Diaconis , Susan Holmes , Svante Janson

Starting from the hypothesis that both physics, in particular space-time and the physical vacuum, and the corresponding mathematics are discrete on the Planck scale we develop a certain framework in form of a class of ' cellular networks'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Manfred Requardt

Graphs are a powerful data structure for representing relational data and are widely used to describe complex real-world systems. Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can both leverage graph-structured…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Michela Lapenna , Caterina De Bacco

We analyze the threshold network model in which a pair of vertices with random weights are connected by an edge when the summation of the weights exceeds a threshold. We prove some convergence theorems and central limit theorems on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Norio Konno , Naoki Masuda , Rahul Roy , Anish Sarkar

The application of graph theory to model the complex structure and function of the brain has shed new light on its organization and function, prompting the emergence of network neuroscience. Despite the tremendous progress that has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Giulia Lioi , Vincent Gripon , Abdelbasset Brahim , François Rousseau , Nicolas Farrugia

Theoretical computer science plays an important role in the understanding of social networks and their properties. We can model information rippling throughout social networks, or the opinions of social media users for example, using graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Timothy Horscroft

Spectral graph theory is a captivating area of graph theory that employs the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices associated with graphs to study them. In this paper, we present a collection of $20$ topics in spectral graph theory,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Lele Liu , Bo Ning

In many ways, graphs are the main modality of data we receive from nature. This is due to the fact that most of the patterns we see, both in natural and artificial systems, are elegantly representable using the language of graph structures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Petar Veličković

We introduce a quantitative measure of network bipartivity as a proportion of even to total number of closed walks in the network. Spectral graph theory is used to quantify how close to bipartite a network is and the extent to which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez