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Signed graph clustering is a critical technique for discovering community structures in graphs that exhibit both positive and negative relationships. We have identified two significant challenges in this domain: i) existing signed spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Peiyao Zhao , Xin Li , Zeyu Zhang , Mingzhong Wang , Xueying Zhu , Lejian Liao

Let $G$ be a finite group and $S$ be a symmetric generating set of $G$ with $|S| = d$. We show that if the undirected Cayley sum graph $C_{\Sigma}(G,S)$ is an expander graph and is non-bipartite, then the spectrum of its normalised…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Arindam Biswas , Jyoti Prakash Saha

We extend the theory of circular game chromatic numbers to signed graphs by defining the invariant $\chi_c^g(G,\sigma)$ for signed graphs $(G,\sigma)$. Our analysis establishes tight bounds dependent on the structural properties of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Pie Desire Ebode Atanhgana

The paper studies edge-coloring of signed multigraphs and extends classical Theorems of Shannon and K\"onig to signed multigraphs. We prove that the chromatic index of a signed multigraph $(G,\sigma_G)$ is at most $\lfloor \frac{3}{2}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Eckhard Steffen , Isaak H. Wolf

The Cheeger constant, $h_G$, is a measure of expansion within a graph. The classical Cheeger Inequality states: $\lambda_{1}/2 \le h_G \le \sqrt{2 \lambda_{1}}$ where $\lambda_1$ is the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the normalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Franklin H. J. Kenter

This is a survey of the method of graph cuts and its applications to graph clustering of weighted unsigned and signed graphs. I provide a fairly thorough treatment of the method of normalized graph cuts, a deeply original method due to Shi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Jean Gallier

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering algorithms that has stood the test of time. It is simple to describe, can be implemented using standard linear algebra, and often finds better clusters than traditional clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Timothy Chu , Gary Miller , Noel Walkington

Signed graphs are widely used to analyze complex systems such as social, political, and biological networks. The notion of balance, a key concept of signed graphs, reflects the stability of relationships. While it has been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyu Wang , Kudria Sergei , Jingbang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xinyu Wang , Xiaodong Luo , Can Wang

In graph property testing the task is to distinguish whether a graph satisfies a given property or is "far" from having that property, preferably with a sublinear query and time complexity. In this work we initiate the study of property…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Florian Adriaens , Simon Apers

In this work we study statistical properties of graph-based clustering algorithms that rely on the optimization of balanced graph cuts, the main example being the optimization of Cheeger cuts. We consider proximity graphs built from data…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Ryan Murray , Matthew Thorpe

This paper establishes the consistency of a family of graph-cut-based algorithms for clustering of data clouds. We consider point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. We investigate approaches to clustering based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-25 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Dejan Slepcev , James von Brecht , Thomas Laurent , Xavier Bresson

A signed graph $\Sigma = (G, \sigma)$ is a graph where the function $\sigma$ assigns either $1$ or $-1$ to each edge of the simple graph $G$. The adjacency matrix of $\Sigma$, denoted by $A(\Sigma)$, is defined canonically. In a recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-06 M. Rajesh Kannan , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

In this paper we introduce a Cheeger-type constant defined as a minimization of a suitable functional among all the $N$-clusters contained in an open bounded set $\Omega$. Here with $N$-Cluster we mean a family of $N$ sets of finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Marco Caroccia

The Cheeger constant of a graph, or equivalently its coboundary expansion, quantifies the expansion of the graph. This notion assumes an implicit choice of a coefficient group, namely, $\mathbb{F}_2$. In this paper, we study Cheeger-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Uriya A. First , Tali Kaufman

A signed graph is a pair $(G,\sigma)$, where $G$ is a graph and $\sigma: E(G)\rightarrow \{-, +\}$, called signature, is an assignment of signs to the edges. Given a signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ with no negative loops, a balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Xiaolan Hu , Luis Kuffner , Jiaao Li , Reza Naserasr , Lujia Wang , Zhouningxin Wang , Xiaowei Yu

The graph Cheeger constant and Cheeger inequalities are generalized to the case of hypergraphs whose edges have the same cardinality. In particular, it is shown that the second largest eigenvalue of the generalized normalized Laplacian is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Raffaella Mulas

For any subgraph of a graph, the Laplacian with Neumann boundary condition was introduced by Chung and Yau [CY94]. In this paper, motivated by the Riemannian case, we introduce the Cheeger constants for Neumann problems and prove…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Hua Bobo , Huang Yan

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

In this paper, we study eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of $p$-Laplacians with Dirichlet boundary condition on graphs. We characterize the first eigenfunction (and the maximum eigenfunction for a bipartite graph) via the sign condition. By…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Bobo Hua , Lili Wang

We study the spectrum of the normalized Laplace operator of a connected graph $\Gamma$. As is well known, the smallest nontrivial eigenvalue measures how difficult it is to decompose $\Gamma$ into two large pieces, whereas the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Frank Bauer , Jürgen Jost