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Determining and analyzing the spectra of graphs is an important and exciting research topic in theoretical computer science. The eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian of a graph provide information on its structural properties and also on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Pinchen Xie , Zhongzhi Zhang , Francesc Comellas

The rich spectral information of the graph Laplacian has been instrumental in graph theory, machine learning, and graph signal processing for applications such as graph classification, clustering, or eigenmode analysis. Recently, the Hodge…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

We give a combinatorial characterization of graphs whose normalized Laplacian has three distinct eigenvalues. Strongly regular graphs and complete bipartite graphs are examples of such graphs, but we also construct more exotic families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Edwin R. van Dam , Gholamreza Omidi

In this paper we establish some spectral conditions for a graph to be Hamilton-connected in terms of the spectral radius of the adjacency matrix or the signless Laplacian of the graph or its complement. For the existence of Hamiltonian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Gui-Dong Yu , Yi-Zheng Fan

We study the Laplacian on a metrized graph, and its eigenfunctions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthew Baker , Robert Rumely

For a graph $G$ and a non-zero real number $\alpha$, the graph invariant $S_{\alpha}(G)$ is the sum of the $\alpha^{th}$ power of the non-zero signless Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$. In this paper, we obtain the sharp bounds of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Lihua You , Jieshan Yang

In this paper, we analyze the eigenfunctions of the edge-based Laplacian on a graph and the relationship of these functions to random walks on the graph. We commence by discussing the set of eigenfunctions supported at the vertices, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Richard C. Wilson , Furqan Aziz , Edwin R. Hancock

In this paper, we investigate the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of the "graph of graphs", in which cubic graphs of order n are joined together using Whitehead moves. Our work follows recent results from arXiv:2303.13923 , which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Michael Li

The work in this thesis concerns the investigation of eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix, normalized Laplacian matrix, signless Laplacian matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of graphs. In Chapter 1, we present a brief…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Bilal A. Rather

We define the distance between edges of graphs and study the coarse Ricci curvature on edges. We consider the Laplacian on edges based on the Jost-Horak's definition of the Laplacian on simplicial complexes. As one of our main results, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Taiki Yamada

We estimate the eigenvalues of connection Laplacians in terms of the non-triviality of the holonomy.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Werner Ballmann , Jochen Brüning , Gilles Carron

We conjecture a new lower bound on the algebraic connectivity of a graph that involves the number of vertices of high eccentricity in a graph. We prove that this lower bound implies a strengthening of the Laplacian Spread Conjecture. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Wayne Barrett , Emily Evans , H. Tracy Hall , Mark Kempton

We show how the spectrum of a graph Laplacian changes with respect to a certain type of rank-one perturbation. We apply our finding to give new short proofs of the spectral version of Kirchhoff's Matrix Tree Theorem and known derivations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Steven Klee , Matthew T. Stamps

In this paper, we study the Laplacian matching polynomial of a graph and the effect of adding edges to a graph on the roots (called Laplacian matching roots) of this polynomial. In particular, we investigate the conditions under which the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Yi Wang , Hai-Jian Cui , Sebastian M. Cioabă

We discuss Laplacians on graphs in a framework of regular Dirichlet forms. We focus on phenomena related to unboundedness of the Laplacians. This includes (failure of) essential selfadjointness, absence of essential spectrum and stochastic…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Matthias Keller , Daniel Lenz

We analyze various formulations of the $\infty$-Laplacian eigenvalue problem on graphs, comparing their properties and highlighting their respective advantages and limitations. First, we investigate the graph $\infty$-eigenpairs arising as…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Piero Deidda , Martin Burger , Mario Putti , Francesco Tudisco

In this work, we define the Laplacian and Normalized Laplacian energies of vertices in a graph, we derive some of its properties and relate them to combinatorial, spectral and geometric quantities of the graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-05 José Guerrero

An oriented hypergraph is a hypergraph where each vertex-edge incidence is given a label of $+1$ or $-1$. The adjacency and Laplacian eigenvalues of an oriented hypergraph are studied. Eigenvalue bounds for both the adjacency and Laplacian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Nathan Reff

In this paper, we present some spectral sufficient conditions for a graph to be Hamilton-connected in terms of the spectral radius or signless Laplacian spectral radius of the graph. Our results improve some previous work.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Qiannan Zhou , Ligong Wang , Yong Lu

We consider a Laplacian on periodic discrete graphs. Its spectrum consists of a finite number of bands. In a class of periodic 1-forms, i.e., functions defined on edges of the periodic graph, we introduce a subclass of minimal forms with a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-28 E. Korotyaev , N. Saburova