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The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport characterization of sectional curvature lower (and upper) bounds for smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. More generally we characterize, via optimal transport, lower bounds on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Christian Ketterer , Andrea Mondino

In this paper, we propose a generalization of the Riemann curvature tensor on manifolds (of dimension two or higher) endowed with a Regge metric. Specifically, while all components of the metric tensor are assumed to be smooth within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Michael Neunteufel , Joachim Schöberl , Max Wardetzky

Complex systems are made up of many interacting components. Network science provides the tools to analyze and understand these interactions. Community detection is a key technique in network science for uncovering the structures that shape…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Louis Boucherie

Randomly Wired Neural Networks (RWNNs) serve as a valuable testbed for investigating the impact of network topology in deep learning by capturing how different connectivity patterns impact both learning efficiency and model performance. At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Pavithra Elumalai , Sudharsan Vijayaraghavan , Madhumita Mondal , Areejit Samal

We survey some recent work using Ricci flow to create a class of local definitions of weak lower scalar curvature bounds that is well defined for $C^0$ metrics. We discuss several properties of these definitions and explain some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

We define a hybrid between Ollvier and Bakry Emery curvature on graphs with dependence on a variable neighborhood. The hexagonal lattice is non-negatively curved under this new curvature notion. Bonnet-Myers diameter bounds and Lichnerowicz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Mark Kempton , Gabor Lippner , Florentin Munch

We show that the generalized Ricci tensor of a weighted complete Riemannian manifold can be retrieved asymptotically from a scaled metric derivative of Wasserstein 1-distances between normalized weighted local volume measures. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Marc Arnaudon , Xue-Mei Li , Benedikt Petko

We derive a family of weighted scalar curvature monotonicity formulas for generalized Ricci flow, involving an auxiliary dilaton field evolving by a certain reaction-diffusion equation motivated by renormalization group flow. These scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Jeffrey Streets

What do generic networks that have certain properties look like? We define Relative Canonical Network ensembles as the ensembles that realize a property R while being as indistinguishable as possible from a generic network ensemble. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-26 Oskar Pfeffer , Nora Molkenthin , Frank Hellmann

Dimensionality is one of the most important properties of complex physical systems. However, only recently this concept has been considered in the context of complex networks. In this paper we further develop the previously introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-19 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Within a framework of noncommutative geometry, we develop an analogue of (pseudo) Riemannian geometry on finite and discrete sets. On a finite set, there is a counterpart of the continuum metric tensor with a simple geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Dimakis , F. Muller-Hoissen

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

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

Networks are topological and geometric structures used to describe systems as different as the Internet, the brain or the quantum structure of space-time. Here we define complex quantum network geometries, describing the underlying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-09-02 Ginestra Bianconi , Christoph Rahmede , Zhihao Wu

We define a notion of a measured length space X having nonnegative N-Ricci curvature, for N finite, or having infinity-Ricci curvature bounded below by K, for K a real number. The definitions are in terms of the displacement convexity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott , Cedric Villani

The cornerstone of statistical mechanics of complex networks is the idea that the links, and not the nodes, are the effective particles of the system. Here we formulate a mapping between weighted networks and lattice gasses, making the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-06 Andrea Gabrielli , Rossana Mastrandrea , Guido Caldarelli , Giulio Cimini

Random networks are increasingly used to analyse complex transportation networks, such as airline routes, roads and rail networks. So far, this research has been focused on describing the properties of the networks with the help of random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Jürgen Hackl , Bryan T. Adey

Employing a class of generalized connections, we describe certain differential complices $\left(\tilde \Omega^*_{\mathbb{T}}(M), \tilde{\mathbb{d}}^{\mathbb{T}}\right)$ constructed from $\wedge^* \mathbb{T} M$ and study some of their basic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-09 Shengda Hu

We consider a general theory of curvatures of discrete surfaces equipped with edgewise parallel Gauss images, and where mean and Gaussian curvatures of faces are derived from the faces' areas and mixed areas. Remarkably these notions are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Alexander I. Bobenko , Helmut Pottmann , Johannes Wallner

We define and study the link prediction problem in bipartite networks, specializing general link prediction algorithms to the bipartite case. In a graph, a link prediction function of two vertices denotes the similarity or proximity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Jérôme Kunegis , Ernesto W. De Luca , Sahin Albayrak