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Graph Laplacians as well as related spectral inequalities and (co-)homology provide a foray into discrete analogues of Riemannian manifolds, providing a rich interplay between combinatorics, geometry and theoretical physics. We apply some…

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We adapt modulus of continuity estimates to the study of spectra of combinatorial graph Laplacians, as well as the Dirichlet spectra of certain weighted Laplacians. The latter case is equivalent to stoquastic Hamiltonians and is of current…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Michael Jarret , Stephen P. Jordan

We propose a Laplacian based on general inner product spaces, which we call the inner product Laplacian. We show the combinatorial and normalized graph Laplacians, as well as other Laplacians for hypergraphs and directed graphs, are special…

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Despite the vast literature on network dynamics, we still lack basic insights into dynamics on higher-order structures (e.g., edges, triangles, and more generally, $k$-dimensional "simplices") and how they are influenced through…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-14 Cameron Ziegler , Per Sebastian Skardal , Haimonti Dutta , Dane Taylor

For a given infinite connected graph $G=(V,E)$ and an arbitrary but fixed conductance function $c$, we study an associated graph Laplacian $\Delta_{c}$; it is a generalized difference operator where the differences are measured across the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Focusing on coupling between edges, we generalize the relationship between the normalized graph Laplacian and random walks on graphs by devising an appropriate normalization for the Hodge Laplacian -- the generalization of the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michael T. Schaub , Austin R. Benson , Paul Horn , Gabor Lippner , Ali Jadbabaie

Hodge Laplacians have been previously proposed as a natural tool for understanding higher-order interactions in networks and directed graphs. Here we introduce a Hodge-theoretic approach to spectral theory and dimensionality reduction for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Hannah Santa Cruz Baur , Vladimir Itskov

For graphs there exists a strong connection between spectral and combinatorial expansion properties. This is expressed, e.g., by the discrete Cheeger inequality, the lower bound of which states that $\lambda(G) \leq h(G)$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Anna Gundert , May Szedlák

Lattice structures play a central role in spectral graph theory, offering analytical insight into diffusion, synchronization, and transport processes on regular discrete spaces. While their spectral properties are completely characterized…

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Recently, topological data analysis has become a trending topic in data science and engineering. However, the key technique of topological data analysis, i.e., persistent homology, is defined on point cloud data, which does not work…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Zhe Su , Yiying Tong , Guo-Wei Wei

We propose an algebraic framework for generalized graph Laplacians which unifies the study of resistor networks, the critical group, and the eigenvalues of the Laplacian and adjacency matrices. Given a graph with boundary $G$ together with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-24 David Jekel , Avi Levy , Will Dana , Austin Stromme , Collin Litterell

An oriented hypergraph is an oriented incidence structure that generalizes and unifies graph and hypergraph theoretic results by examining its locally signed graphic substructure. In this paper we obtain a combinatorial characterization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Gina Chen , Vivian Liu , Ellen Robinson , Lucas J. Rusnak , Kyle Wang

In this article, the Hodge decomposition for any degree of differential forms is investigated on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$ and the half-space $\mathbb{R}^n_+$ on different scale of function spaces namely homogeneous and inhomogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Anatole Gaudin

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Rui Wang , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Spectral methods that are based on eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete graph Laplacians, such as Diffusion Maps and Laplacian Eigenmaps are often used for manifold learning and non-linear dimensionality reduction. It was previously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Amit Singer , Hau-tieng Wu

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly evolving field in applied mathematics and data science that leverages tools from topology to uncover robust, shape-driven insights in complex datasets. The main workhorse is persistent homology,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhe Su , Xiang Liu , Layal Bou Hamdan , Vasileios Maroulas , Jie Wu , Gunnar Carlsson , Guo-Wei Wei

We introduce a numerical method for approximating arbitrary differential operators on vector fields in the weak form given point cloud data sampled randomly from a $d$ dimensional manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. This method generalizes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 John Wilson Peoples , John Harlim

Despite growing interest in synchronization dynamics over "higher-order" network models, optimization theory for such systems is limited. Here, we study a family of Kuramoto models inspired by algebraic topology in which oscillators are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-12 Cameron Purple , Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor

To every Hermitian vector bundle with connection over a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ one can associate a corresponding connection Laplacian acting on the sections of the bundle. We define analogous combinatorial metric dependent…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Svetoslav Zahariev

We study Laplacians on general countable weighted simplicial complexes from a conceptual point of view. These operators will first be introduced formally before showing that those formal operators coincide with self-adjoint realizations of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Philipp Bartmann , Matthias Keller