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The Laplacian matrix and its pseudo-inverse for a strongly connected directed graph is fundamental in computing many properties of a directed graph. Examples include random-walk centrality and betweenness measures, average hitting and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Daniel Boley

We study small perturbations of diffusion processes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that leave invariant a finite collection of hypersurfaces. Each surface is assumed to be repelling for the unperturbed process, and the unperturbed motion on each of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Leonid Koralov , Chenglin Liu

Networks with a prescribed power-law scaling in the spectrum of the graph Laplacian can be generated by evolutionary optimization. The Laplacian spectrum encodes the dynamical behavior of many important processes. Here, the networks are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-28 Steffen Karalus , Joachim Krug

We study how far a diffusion process on a graph can deviate from a designed starting pattern when the pattern is generated via Laplacian regularisation. Under standard stability conditions for undirected, entrywise nonnegative graphs, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Ardavan Rahimian

Hypergraphs naturally represent higher-order interactions, which persistently appear from social interactions to neural networks and other natural systems. Although their importance is well recognized, a theoretical framework to describe…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-25 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Michele Tizzani , Yamir Moreno

This work focuses on exploring the potential benefits of introducing a nonlinear Laplacian in Sheaf Neural Networks for graph-related tasks. The primary aim is to understand the impact of such nonlinearity on diffusion dynamics, signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Olga Zaghen

Models of network diffusion typically rely on the Laplacian matrix, capturing interactions via direct connections. Beyond direct interactions, information in many systems can also flow via indirect pathways, where influence typically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-10 Lluís Torres-Hugas , Jordi Duch , Sergio Gómez

There are two main notions of a Laplacian operator associated with graphs: discrete graph Laplacians and continuous Laplacians on metric graphs (widely known as quantum graphs). Both objects have a venerable history as they are related to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Aleksey Kostenko , Noema Nicolussi

This paper studies a generalization of the standard continuous-time consensus protocol, obtained by replacing the Laplacian matrix of the communication graph with the so-called deformed Laplacian. The deformed Laplacian is a second-degree…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Fabio Morbidi

This paper aims at addressing distributed averaging problems for signed networks in the presence of general directed topologies that are represented by signed digraphs. A new class of improved Laplacian potential functions is proposed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Mingjun Du , Deyuan Meng , Zheng-Guang Wu

Stochastic point processes relevant to the theory of long-range aperiodic order are considered that display diffraction spectra of mixed type, with special emphasis on explicitly computable cases together with a unified approach of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Baake , Matthias Birkner , Robert V. Moody

The development of simple and fast hypergraph spectral methods has been hindered by the lack of numerical algorithms for simulating heat diffusions and computing fundamental objects, such as Personalized PageRank vectors, over hypergraphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Konstantinos Ameranis , Antares Chen , Adela DePavia , Lorenzo Orecchia , Erasmo Tani

The crossover among two or more types of diffusive processes represents a vibrant theme in nonequilibrium statistical physics. In this work we propose two models to generate crossovers among different L\'evy processes: in the first model we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-15 Maike A. F. dos Santos , Fernando D. Nobre , Evaldo M. F. Curado

We consider the diffusion of independent particles experiencing random accelerations by a space- and time-dependent force as well as viscous damping. This model can exhibit several asymptotic behaviours, depending upon the limiting cases…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-13 B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson , V. Bezuglyy , K. Gustavsson , K. Nakamura

Multiplex networks describe systems whose interactions can be of different nature, and are fundamental to understand complexity of networks beyond the framework of simple graphs. Recently it has been pointed out that restricting the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-14 Reza Ghorbanchian , Vito Latora , Ginestra Bianconi

This paper studies the continuous-time distributed optimization of a sum of convex functions over directed graphs. Contrary to what is known in the consensus literature, where the same dynamics works for both undirected and directed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Bahman Gharesifard , Jorge Cortes

Classical approaches for asymptotic convergence to the global average in a distributed fashion typically assume timely and reliable exchange of information between neighboring components of a given multi-component system. These assumptions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we study a class of equations representing nonlinear diffusion on networks. A particular instance of our model can be seen as a network equivalent of the porous-medium equation. We are interested in studying perturbations of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Riccardo Bonetto , Hildeberto Jardón Kojakhmetov

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

In this paper we consider a diffusion process obtained as a small random perturbation of a dynamical system attracted to a stable equilibrium point. The drift and the diffusive perturbation are assumed to evolve slowly in time. We describe…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-23 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov