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Motivated by discrete Laplacian differential operators with various accuracy orders in numerical analysis, we introduce new matrices attached to a simple graph that can be considered graph Laplacians with higher accuracy. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Mary Yoon

In this paper, we study extremal values for the determinant of the weighted graph Laplacian under simple nondegeneracy conditions on the weights. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the determinant of the Laplacian to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Nathan Albin , Joan Lind , Anna Melikyan , Pietro Poggi-Corradini

Consider the normalized adjacency matrices of random $d$-regular graphs on $N$ vertices with fixed degree $d\geq3$. We prove that, with probability $1-N^{-1+{\varepsilon}}$ for any ${\varepsilon} >0$, the following two properties hold as $N…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jiaoyang Huang , Horng-Tzer Yau

Let $NPO(k)$ be the smallest number $n$ such that the adjacency matrix of any undirected graph with $n$ vertices or more has at least $k$ nonpositive eigenvalues. We show that $NPO(k)$ is well-defined and prove that the values of $NPO(k)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Zachary B. Charles , Miriam Farber , Charles R. Johnson , Lee Kennedy-Shaffer

The second eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix and its associated eigenvector are fundamental features of an undirected graph, and as such they have found widespread use in scientific computing, machine learning, and data analysis. In many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Michael W. Mahoney , Lorenzo Orecchia , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Let $G$ be a graph with $p(G)$ pendant vertices and $q(G)$ quasi-pendant vertices. Denote by $m_{L(G)}(\lambda)$ the multiplicity of $\lambda$ as a Laplacian eigenvalue of $G$. Let $\overline{G}$ be the reduced graph of $G$, which can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Fenglei Tian , Dein Wong

Determining the effect of structural perturbations on the eigenvalue spectra of networks is an important problem because the spectra characterize not only their topological structures, but also their dynamical behavior, such as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-04 Attilio Milanese , Jie Sun , Takashi Nishikawa

The Cheeger constant of a graph is the smallest possible ratio between the size of a subgraph and the size of its boundary. It is well known that this constant must be at least $\frac{\lambda_1}{2}$, where $\lambda_1$ is the smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Jack Koolen , Greg Markowsky , Zhi Qiao

Upper and lower estimates of eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a metric graph have been established in 2017 by G. Berkolaiko, J.B. Kennedy, P. Kurasov and D. Mugnolo. Both these estimates can be achieved at the same time only by highly…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Andrea Serio

We study the spectral gap of the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph through the connectivity threshold. In particular, we show that for any fixed $\delta > 0$ if $$p \ge \frac{(1/2 + \delta) \log n}{n},$$ then the normalized graph Laplacian of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Christopher Hoffman , Matthew Kahle , Elliot Paquette

We show that, in the graph spectrum of the normalized graph Laplacian on trees, the eigenvalue 1 and eigenvalues near 1 are strongly related to minimum vertex covers. In particular, for the eigenvalue 1, its multiplicity is related to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-20 Hao Chen , Jürgen Jost

We derive tight lower bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of a sample covariance matrix of a centred isotropic random vector under weak or no assumptions on its components.

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Pavel Yaskov

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating the joint upper and lower tail large deviations of the edge eigenvalues of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal{G}_{n,p}$, in the regime of $p$ where the edge of the spectrum is no…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya , Sohom Bhattacharya , Shirshendu Ganguly

We establish geometric lower bounds for the smallest positive eigenvalue of the Hodge Laplacian in the class of non-convex domains given by Euclidean annular regions with a convex outer boundary and a spherical inner boundary. These bounds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tirumala Chakradhar , Pierre Nicolle-Guerini

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\ldots,\lambda_n$ its eigenvalues. The Estrada index of $G$ is an invariant that is calculated from the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a graph. In this paper, we present…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Juan L. Aguayo , Juan R. Carmona , Jonnathan Rodríguez

Urschel introduced a notion of nodal partitioning to prove an upper bound on the number of nodal decomposition of discrete Laplacian eigenvectors. The result is an analogue to the well-known Courant's nodal domain theorem on continuous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Hiranya Kishore Dey , Soumyajit Saha

Let G be a graph with adjacency matrix A(G) and degree diagonal matrix D(G). In 2017, Nikiforov [1] defined the matrix Aalpha(G), as a convex combination of A(G) and D(G), the following way, Aalpha(G) = alpha A(G) + (1 - alpha)D(G), where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 João Domingos G. da Silva , Carla Silva Oliveira , Liliana Manuela G. C. da Costa

The graph partition problem is the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into a fixed number of sets of given sizes such that the sum of weights of edges joining different sets is optimized. In this paper we simplify a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

We give a construction of a class of magnetic Laplacian operators on finite directed graphs. We study some general combinatorial and algebraic properties of operators in this class before applying the Harrell-Stubbe Averaged Variational…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-05 John Dever

For a simple and connected graph, a new graph invariant $s_{\alpha}^{*}(G)$, defined as the sum of powers of the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix, has been introduced by Bozkurt and Bozkurt in [7]. Lower and upper bounds have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Gian Paolo Clemente , Alessandra Cornaro