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We investigate the equivalence of Sobolev inequalities and the conjunction of Gaussian upper heat kernel bounds and volume doubling on large scales on graphs. For the normalizing measure, we obtain their equivalence up to constants by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Matthias Keller , Christian Rose

Determining whether two graphs are structurally identical is a fundamental problem with applications spanning mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and network science. Despite decades of study, graph isomorphism remains a challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sara Najem , Amer E. Mouawad

Many problems and conjectures in extremal combinatorics concern polynomial inequalities between homomorphism densities of graphs where we allow edges to have real weights. Using the theory of graph limits, we can equivalently evaluate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Grigoriy Blekherman , Annie Raymond , Fan Wei

On doubling metric measure spaces endowed with a strongly local regular Dirichlet form, we show some characterisations of pointwise upper bounds of the heat kernel in terms of global scale-invariant inequalities that correspond respectively…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Salahaddine Boutayeb , Thierry Coulhon , Adam Sikora

We analyze the heat kernel associated to the Laplacian on a compact metric graph, with standard Kirchoff-Neumann vertex conditions. An explicit formula for the heat kernel as a sum over loops, developed by Roth and Kostrykin, Potthoff, and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-10 David Borthwick , Kenny Jones , Evans M. Harrell

In the present paper, we introduce a concept of Ricci curvature on hypergraphs for a nonlinear Laplacian. We prove that our definition of the Ricci curvature is a generalization of Lin-Lu-Yau coarse Ricci curvature for graphs to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 MasaHiro Ikeda , Yu Kitabeppu , Yuuki Takai , Takato Uehara

In this note we give a heat kernel lower bound in term of integral Ricci curvature, extending Cheeger-Yau's estimate.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xianzhe Dai , Guofang Wei

In these paper we study the adjacency matrix of some infinite graphs, which we call the shift operator on the $L^p$ space of the graph. In particular, we establish norm estimates, we find the norm for some cases, we decide the triviality of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Aahan Agrawal , Astrid Berge , Seth Colbert-Pollack , Rubén A. Martínez-Avendaño , Elyssa Sliheet

We use the concept of intrinsic metrics to give a new definition for an isoperimetric constant of a graph. We use this novel isoperimetric constant to prove a Cheeger-type estimate for the bottom of the spectrum which is nontrivial even if…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-25 Frank Bauer , Matthias Keller , Radosław K. Wojciechowski

We introduce a new method that exploits the combination of the Heat Kernel (HK) and Background Field Method to compute gauge-invariant and gauge parameter-independent quantities such as the effective potential, anomalous dimensions, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Debanjan Balui , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Subhendra Mohanty , Tushar

We obtain sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates on spaces with varying dimension, in which two spaces of general dimension are connected at one point. On these spaces, if the dimensions of the two constituent parts are different, the volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Takumu Ooi

We propose a theoretical framework of multi-way similarity to model real-valued data into hypergraphs for clustering via spectral embedding. For graph cut based spectral clustering, it is common to model real-valued data into graph by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Shota Saito

Graph kernels are usually defined in terms of simpler kernels over local substructures of the original graphs. Different kernels consider different types of substructures. However, in some cases they have similar predictive performances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti , Riccardo Tesselli

We use a Harnack-type inequality on exit times and spectral bounds to characterize upper bounds of the heat kernel associated with any regular Dirichlet form without killing part, where the scale function may vary with position. We further…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Aobo Chen , Zhenyu Yu

We establish a new formula for the heat kernel on regular trees in terms of classical I-Bessel functions. Although the formula is explicit, and a proof is given through direct computation, we also provide a conceptual viewpoint using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Gautam Chinta , Jay Jorgenson , Anders Karlsson

In this paper, we obtain a Li-Yau type gradient estimate with time dependent parameter for positive solutions of the heat equation, so that the Li-Yau type gradient estimate of Li-Xu are special cases of the estimate. We also obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Zhigang Chen , Chengjie Yu , Feifei Zhao

In this paper, we will study the (linear) geometric analysis on metric measure spaces. We will establish a local Li-Yau's estimate for weak solutions of the heat equation and prove a sharp Yau's gradient gradient for harmonic functions on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

In this paper, we establish Buser type inequalities, i.e., upper bounds for eigenvalues in terms of Cheeger constants. We prove the Buser's inequality for an infinite but locally finite connected graph with Ricci curvature lower bounds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Shuang Liu

Given a simple graph $G$, its Laplacian-energy-like invariant $LEL(G)$ and incidence energy $IE(G)$ are the sum of square root of its all Laplacian eigenvalues and signless Laplacian eigenvalues, respectively. Applying the Cauchy-Schwarz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Gui-Xian Tian , Shu-Yu Cui

An overview about recent progress in the calculation of the heat kernel and the one-loop effective action in quantum gravity and gauge theories is given. We analyse the general structure of the standard Schwinger-De Witt asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Avramidi