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In this paper, we establish Buser type inequalities, i.e., upper bounds for eigenvalues in terms of Cheeger constants. We prove the Buser's inequality for an infinite but locally finite connected graph with Ricci curvature lower bounds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Shuang Liu

We study the eigenvalues of the connection Laplacian on a graph with an orthogonal group or unitary group signature. We establish higher order Buser type inequalities, i.e., we provide upper bounds for eigenvalues in terms of Cheeger…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

The $\mu$-conductance measure proposed by Lov\'asz and Simonovits is a size-specific conductance score that identifies the set with smallest conductance while disregarding those sets with volume smaller than a $\mu$ fraction of the whole…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yufan Huang , David F. Gleich

We consider a new semidefinite programming relaxation for directed edge expansion, which is obtained by adding triangle inequalities to the reweighted eigenvalue formulation. Applying the matrix multiplicative weight update method to this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lap Chi Lau , Kam Chuen Tung , Robert Wang

Eigenvalue interlacing is a versatile technique for deriving results in algebraic combinatorics. In particular, it has been successfully used for proving a number of results about the relation between the (adjacency matrix or Laplacian)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-05 M. A. Fiol

The problem of multiway partitioning of an undirected graph is considered. A spectral method is used, where the k > 2 largest eigenvalues of the normalized adjacency matrix (equivalently, the k smallest eigenvalues of the normalized graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Lars Eldén

We develop a nonlinear spectral graph theory, in which the Laplace operator is replaced by the 1-Laplacian ?$\Delta_1$. The eigenvalue problem is to solve a nonlinear system involving a set valued function. In the study, we investigate the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Kung Ching Chang

We introduce the notion of bipartiteness ratio for graphons. We prove the dual Cheeger-Buser inequality for graphons, which relates the gap between $2$ and the top of the spectrum of the Laplacian of a graphon with its bipartiteness ratio.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Mugdha Mahesh Pokharanakar

Let $d \geq 2$. The Cheeger constant of a graph is the minimum surface-to-volume ratio of all subsets of the vertex set with relative volume at most 1/2. There are several ways to define surface and volume here: the simplest method is to…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Tobias Müller , Mathew D. Penrose

This paper investigates links between the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and the higher Cheeger constants of smooth Riemannian manifolds, possibly weighted and/or with boundary. The higher Cheeger constants…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Gary Froyland , Christopher P. Rock

Coboundary and cosystolic expansion are notions of expansion that generalize the Cheeger constant or edge expansion of a graph to higher dimensions. The classical Cheeger inequality implies that for graphs edge expansion is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Tali Kaufman , Izhar Oppenheim

In this paper, we introduce Cheeger type constants via isocapacitary constants introduced by Maz'ya to estimate first Dirichlet, Neumann and Steklov eigenvalues on a finite subgraph of a graph. Moreover, we estimate the bottom of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Bobo Hua , Florentin Münch , Tao Wang

We show how the evolving set methodology of Morris and Peres can be used to show Cheeger inequalities for bounding the spectral gap of a finite Markov kernel. This leads to sharp versions of several previous Cheeger inequalities, including…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-03 Ravi Montenegro

In this paper we study spectra of Laplacians of infinite weighted graphs. Instead of the assumption of local finiteness we impose the condition of summability of the weight function. Such graphs correspond to reversible Markov chains with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Michael Farber , Lewin Strauss

In graph theory there are intimate connections between the expansion properties of a graph and the spectrum of its Laplacian. In this paper we define a notion of combinatorial expansion for simplicial complexes of general dimension, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Ori Parzanchevski , Ron Rosenthal , Ran J. Tessler

In \cite{Elek} we proved that the limit of a weakly convergent sequence of finite graphs can be viewed as a graphing or a continuous field of infinite graphs. Thus one can associate a type $II_1$-von Neumann algebra to such graph sequences.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gábor Elek

The second-largest eigenvalue and second-smallest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph are measures of its connectivity. These eigenvalues can be used to analyze the robustness, resilience, and synchronizability of networks, and are related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Aida Abiad , Boris Brimkov , Xavier Martinez-Rivera , O Suil , Jingmei Zhang

We prove generalized Cheeger inequalities for eigenvalues of Laplacians for reversible Markov chains. Then we apply Hassannezhad and Miclo's convergence result to obtain Jammes Cheeger inequalities for Steklov eigenvalues. In particular, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Bobo Hua , Supanat Kamtue , Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

We consider algorithms and spectral bounds for sparsest cut and conductance in directed polymatrodal networks. This is motivated by recent work on submodular hypergraphs \cite{Yoshida19,LiM18,ChenOT23,Veldt23} and previous work on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chandra Chekuri , Anand Louis

For magnetic graphs satisfying connection curvature dimension inequality $CD^\sigma(n,\kappa)$, we prove a Harnack-type inequality for eigenfunctions of the graph magnetic Laplace operator in the manner of work done by Chung, Lin, Yau in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Sawyer Jack Robertson