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For a simple and connected graph, several lower and upper bounds of graph invariants expressed in terms of the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix have been proposed in literature. In this paper, through a unified approach based…

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We introduce a homothetic extension of classical Weyl integrable geometry by generalizing the usual linear gauge transformations to affine homothetic transformations centered at a distinguished harmonic, scale-invariant form $\alpha_d$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Fereidoun Sabetghadam

We develop an analytic framework for Lefschetz fixed point theory and Morse theory for Hilbert complexes on stratified pseudomanifolds. We develop formulas for both global and local Lefschetz numbers and Morse, Poincar\'e polynomials as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Gayana Jayasinghe

A concrete analysis of the general properties and numerical characteristics of different atomic and nuclear shell systems and subnuclear particles is carried out on the base of the solution scheme for an introduced in part I physical graph…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Asribekov

Different types of nonstandard homology groups based on the various subcomplexes of differential forms are considered as a continuation of the recent authors works. Some of them reflect interesting properties of dynamical systems on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. P. Novikov

In this article we study the well-posedness (uniqueness and existence of solutions) of nonlinear elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on a finite graph. These results are obtained using the discrete comparison principle and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Juan J. Manfredi , Adam M. Oberman , Alex P. Svirodov

Given i.i.d. observations uniformly distributed on a closed submanifold of the Euclidean space, we study higher-order generalizations of graph Laplacians, so-called Hodge Laplacians on graphs, as approximations of the Laplace-Beltrami…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Jan-Paul Lerch , Martin Wahl

Many fundamental structures of Riemannian geometry have found discrete counterparts for graphs or combinatorial ones for simplicial complexes. These include those discussed in this survey, Hodge theory, Morse theory, the spectral theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Marzieh Eidi , Juergen Jost , Dong Zhang

We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Enrique Arias , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio Lewenkopf

In this paper we present a new approach to computing homology (with field coefficients) and persistent homology. We use concepts from discrete Morse theory, to provide an algorithm which can be expressed solely in terms of simple graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Paweł Dłotko , Hubert Wagner

The Cheeger inequalities give an upper and lower bound on the spectral gap of discrete Laplacians defined on a graph in terms of the geometric characteristics of the graph. We generalise this approach and we employ it to determine if a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Abbas Al-Shimary , Jiannis K. Pachos

In this paper we give a method to associate a graph with an arbitrary density matrix referred to a standard orthonormal basis in the Hilbert space of a finite dimensional quantum system. We study the related issues like classification of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Ali Saif M. Hassan , Pramod Joag

We expand upon a graph theoretic set of uncertainty principles with tight bounds for difference estimators acting simultaneously in the graph domain and the frequency domain. We show that the eigenfunctions of a modified graph Laplacian and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Paul J. Koprowski

Some recent results in supersymmetric quantum mechanics are presented. New semi-classical approximation formulas for Witten's realization of supersymmetric quantum mechanics are discussed. Implications of the supersymmetric structure of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Georg Junker

In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition that discrete Morse functions on a digraph can be extended to be Morse functions on its transitive closure, from this we can extend the Morse theory to digraphs by using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Yong Lin , Chong Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

Recently, Braunstein et al. [1] introduced normalized Laplacian matrices of graphs as density matrices in quantum mechanics and studied the relationships between quantum physical properties and graph theoretical properties of the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Chai Wah Wu

We present a discrete form of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for quantum gravitation, based on the lattice formulation due to Regge. In this setup the infinite-dimensional manifold of 3-geometries is replaced by a space of three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-07 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

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

We provide an introductory review of some topics in spectral theory of Laplacians on metric graphs. We focus on three different aspects: the trace formula, the self-adjointness problem and connections between Laplacians on metric graphs and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Noema Nicolussi

We show how graph theory concepts can provide an insight into the origin of slow dynamics in systems with kinetic constraints. In particular, we observe that slow dynamics is related to the presence of strong hierarchies between nodes on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Heiko Georg Menzler , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner