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In recent years, discrete spaces such as graphs attract much attention as models for physical spacetime or as models for testing the spirit of non-commutative geometry. In this work, we construct the differential algebras for graphs by…

q-alg · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Sunggoo Cho , Kwang Sung Park

In recent years extensions of manifold Ricci curvature to discrete combinatorial objects such as graphs and hypergraphs (popularly called as "network shapes"), have found a plethora of applications in a wide spectrum of research areas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bhaskar DasGupta , Katie Kruzan

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

On one hand, we study the class of graphs on surfaces, satisfying tessellation properties, with positive Forman curvature on each edge. Via medial graphs, we provide a new proof for the finiteness of the class, and give a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Yohji Akama , Bobo Hua , Yanhui Su , Haohang Zhang

Ricci curvature and its associated flow offer powerful geometric methods for analyzing complex networks. While existing research heavily focuses on applications for undirected graphs such as community detection and core extraction, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

Networks and their higher order generalizations, such as hypernetworks or multiplex networks are ever more popular models in the applied sciences. However, methods developed for the study of their structural properties go little beyond the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Emil Saucan , Melanie Weber

We adapt Forman's discretization of Ricci curvature to the case of undirected networks, both weighted and unweighted, and investigate the measure in a variety of model and real-world networks. We find that most nodes and edges in model and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-23 R. P. Sreejith , Karthikeyan Mohanraj , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan , Areejit Samal

A goal in network science is the geometrical characterization of complex networks. In this direction, we (arXiv:1603.00386; J. Stat. Mech. (2016) P063206) have recently introduced the Forman's discretization of Ricci curvature to the realm…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-28 R. P. Sreejith , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan , Areejit Samal

We have recently introduced Forman's discretization of Ricci curvature to the realm of complex networks. Forman curvature is an edge-based measure whose mathematical definition elegantly encapsulates the weights of nodes and edges in a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-01 R. P. Sreejith , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan , Areejit Samal

Motivated by the methods and results of manifold sampling based on Ricci curvature, we propose a similar approach for networks. To this end we make appeal to three types of discrete curvature, namely the graph Forman-, full Forman- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Vladislav Barkanass , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan

We study the existence of solutions of Ricci flow equations of Ollivier-Lin-Lu-Yau curvature defined on weighted graphs. Our work is motivated by\cite{NLLG} in which the discrete time Ricci flow algorithm has been applied successfully as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Shuliang Bai , Yong Lin , Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

The combination of words ``discrete curvature'' is only an apparent contradiction. In this survey we describe curvature notions associated with polygons, polyhedral surfaces, and with abstract polyhedral manifolds. Several theorems about…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Ivan Izmestiev

Active contour models based on partial differential equations have proved successful in image segmentation, yet the study of their geometric formulation on arbitrary geometric graphs is still at an early stage. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Christos Sakaridis , Kimon Drakopoulos , Petros Maragos

Geometric data analysis and learning has emerged as a distinct and rapidly developing research area, increasingly recognized for its effectiveness across diverse applications. At the heart of this field lies curvature, a powerful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasharth Yadav , Kelin Xia

We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a graph, which takes into account the distance between nodes. Our approach generalizes the usual (co)variance to the setting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Renaud Lambiotte

In the present paper, we propose a new discrete surface theory on 3-valent embedded graphs in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space which are not necessarily discretization or approximation of smooth surfaces. The Gauss curvature and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Motoko Kotani , Hisashi Naito , Toshiaki Omori

The relations, rather than the elements, constitute the structure of networks. We therefore develop a systematic approach to the analysis of networks, modelled as graphs or hypergraphs, that is based on structural properties of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Marzieh Eidi , Amirhossein Farzam , Wilmer Leal , Areejit Samal , Jürgen Jost

In the present work, we study the properties of biological networks by applying analogous notions of fundamental concepts in Riemannian geometry and optimal mass transport to discrete networks described by weighted graphs. Specifically, we…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-11 Maryam Pouryahya , James Mathews , Allen Tannenbaum

We propose a notion of discrete elastic and area-constrained elastic curves in 2-dimensional space forms. Our definition extends the well-known discrete Euclidean curvature equation to space forms and reflects various geometric properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Tim Hoffmann , Jannik Steinmeier , Gudrun Szewieczek

We give a discrete Bonnet Myers type theorem for the effective diameter assuming positive Ollivier curvature. We prove that this diameter bound is attained if and only if the graph is a cocktail party graph, a Johnson graph, a halved cube,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Florentin Münch