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We develop a geometric approach to spin networks with Heisenberg or XX coupling. Geometry is acquired by defining a distance on the discrete set of spins. The key feature of the geometry of such networks is their Gauss curvature $\kappa$,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Edmond Jonckheere , Frank Langbein , Sophie Schirmer

Motivated by the search for geometric observables in nonperturbative quantum gravity, we define a notion of coarse-grained Ricci curvature. It is based on a particular way of extracting the local Ricci curvature of a smooth Riemannian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 N. Klitgaard , R. Loll

Characterizing shapes of high-dimensional objects via Ricci curvatures plays a critical role in many research areas in mathematics and physics. However, even though several discretizations of Ricci curvatures for discrete combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Bhaskar DasGupta , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

Graph Neural Networks are highly effective at learning from relational data, leveraging node and edge features while maintaining the symmetries inherent to graph structures. However, many real-world systems, such as social or biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Michael Banf , Dominik Filipiak , Max Schattauer , Liliya Imasheva

We introduce in this paper new and very effective numerical methods based on neural networks for the approximation of the mean curvature flow of either oriented or non-orientable surfaces. To learn the correct interface evolution law, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Elie Bretin , Roland Denis , Simon Masnou , Garry Terii

In this paper, we explore the relationship between one of the most elementary and important properties of graphs, the presence and relative frequency of triangles, and a combinatorial notion of Ricci curvature. We employ a definition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu

This paper builds on the connection between graph neural networks and traditional dynamical systems. We propose continuous graph neural networks (CGNN), which generalise existing graph neural networks with discrete dynamics in that they can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Louis-Pascal A. C. Xhonneux , Meng Qu , Jian Tang

This paper presents a new look at the neural network (NN) robustness problem, from the point of view of graph theory analysis, specifically graph curvature. Graph curvature (e.g., Ricci curvature) has been used to analyze system dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Shuhang Tan , Jayson Sia , Paul Bogdan , Radoslav Ivanov

Curvature serves as a potent and descriptive invariant, with its efficacy validated both theoretically and practically within graph theory. We employ a definition of generalized Ricci curvature proposed by Ollivier, which Lin and Yau later…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-24 Wonwoo Kang , Heehyun Park

In this paper we study sectional curvature bounds for Riemannian manifolds with density from the perspective of a weighted torsion free connection introduced recently by the last two authors. We develop two new tools for studying weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Lee Kennard , William Wylie , Dmytro Yeroshkin

This paper introduces a generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) from low-dimensional grid data, such as images, to graph-structured data. We propose a novel spatial convolution utilizing a random walk to uncover the relations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Yotam Hechtlinger , Purvasha Chakravarti , Jining Qin

For a subRiemannian manifold and a given Riemannian extension of the metric, we define a canonical global connection. This connection coincides with both the Levi-Civita connection on Riemannian manifolds and the Tanaka-Webster connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-13 Robert K. Hladky

Spin networks, essentially labeled graphs, are ``good quantum numbers'' for the quantum theory of geometry. These structures encompass a diverse range of techniques which may be used in the quantum mechanics of finite dimensional systems,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Seth A. Major

We develop a definition of Ricci curvature on directed hypergraphs and explore the consequences of that definition. The definition generalizes Ollivier's definition for graphs. It involves a carefully designed optimal transport problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Marzieh Eidi , Jürgen Jost

In this paper, we generalize Lin-Lu-Yau's Ricci curvature to weighted graphs and give a simple limit-free definition. We prove two extremal results on the sum of Ricci curvatures for weighted graph. A weighted graph $G=(V,E,d)$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Shuliang Bai , An Huang , Linyuan Lu , Shing-Tung Yau

Network data, commonly used throughout the physical, social, and biological sciences, consist of nodes (individuals) and the edges (interactions) between them. One way to represent network data's complex, high-dimensional structure is to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-27 Steven Wilkins-Reeves , Tyler McCormick

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

Metric dimension is a valuable parameter that helps address problems related to network design, localization, and information retrieval by identifying the minimum number of landmarks required to uniquely determine distances between vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Savari Prabhu , T. Jenifer Janany , Sandi Klavžar

Networks are often studied as graphs, where the vertices stand for entities in the world and the edges stand for connections between them. While relatively easy to study, graphs are often inadequate for modeling real-world situations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-25 David I. Spivak

The Gauss-Bonnet curvature of order $2k$ is a generalization to higher dimensions of the Gauss-Bonnet integrand in dimension $2k$, as the usual scalar curvature generalizes the two dimensional Gauss-Bonnet integrand. In this paper, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohammed-Larbi Labbi
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