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A sign is introduced in the usual Laplacian on graphs and the corresponding analogue of the isoperimetric constant for this Laplacian is presented, i.e. a geometric quantity which enables to bound from above and below the first eigenvalue.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Antoine Gournay

We present the spectrum of the (normalized) graph Laplacian as a systematic tool for the investigation of networks, and we describe basic properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Processes of graph formation like motif joining or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-10-19 Anirban Banerjee , Jürgen Jost

Standard singularity theorems are proven in Lorentzian manifolds of arbitrary dimension n if they contain closed trapped submanifolds of arbitrary co-dimension. By using the mean curvature vector to characterize trapped submanifolds, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Gregory J. Galloway , José M. M. Senovilla

We present a framework for efficiently approximating differential-geometric primitives on arbitrary manifolds via construction of an atlas graph representation, which leverages the canonical characterization of a manifold as a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ryan A. Robinett , Lorenzo Orecchia , Samantha J. Riesenfeld

We study the sets of inertias achieved by Laplacian matrices of weighted signed graphs. First we characterize signed graphs with a unique Laplacian inertia. Then we show that there is a sufficiently small perturbation of the nonzero weights…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Keivan Hassani Monfared , Gary MacGillivray , Dale D. Olesky , Pauline van den Driessche

We expand upon a graph theoretic set of uncertainty principles with tight bounds for difference estimators acting simultaneously in the graph domain and the frequency domain. We show that the eigenfunctions of a modified graph Laplacian and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Paul J. Koprowski

Stable fold maps are fundamental tools in a generalization of the theory of Morse functions on smooth manifolds and its application to studies of topological properties of smooth manifolds. Round fold maps were introduced as stable fold…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Naoki Kitazawa

The shape and orientation of data clouds reflect variability in observations that can confound pattern recognition systems. Subspace methods, utilizing Grassmann manifolds, have been a great aid in dealing with such variability. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Xiaofeng Ma , Michael Kirby , Chris Peterson

For a simple and connected graph, several lower and upper bounds of graph invariants expressed in terms of the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix have been proposed in literature. In this paper, through a unified approach based…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Gian Paolo Clemente , Alessandra Cornaro

A kernel based method is proposed for the construction of signature (defining) functions of subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$. The subsets can range from full dimensional manifolds (open subsets) to point clouds (a finite number of points) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Patrick Guidotti

The graph entropy describes the structural information of graph. Motivated by the definition of graph entropy in general graphs, the graph entropy of hypergraphs based on Laplacian degree are defined. Some results on graph entropy of simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Pengli Lu , Yulong Xue

Discrete point cloud objects lack sufficient shape descriptors of 3D geometries. In this paper, we present a novel method for aggregating hypothetical curves in point clouds. Sequences of connected points (curves) are initially grouped by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai

We introduce the Density Formula for (topological) drawings of graphs in the plane or on the sphere, which relates the number of edges, vertices, crossings, and sizes of cells in the drawing. We demonstrate its capability by providing…

Graph Laplacians computed from weighted adjacency matrices are widely used to identify geometric structure in data, and clusters in particular; their spectral properties play a central role in a number of unsupervised and semi-supervised…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Franca Hoffmann , Bamdad Hosseini , Assad A. Oberai , Andrew M. Stuart

The convenient setting for smooth mappings, holomorphic mappings, and real analytic mappings in infinite dimension is sketched. Infinite dimensional manifolds are discussed with special emphasis on smooth partitions of unity and tangent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Andreas Kriegl , Peter W. Michor

How do vertices exert influence in graph data? We develop a framework for edge clustering, a new method for exploratory data analysis that reveals how both vertices and edges collaboratively accomplish directed influence in graphs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Manohar Murthi , Kamal Premaratne

In this paper, we develop a novel weighted Laplacian method, which is partially inspired by the theory of graph Laplacian, to study recent popular graph problems, such as multilevel graph partitioning and balanced minimum cut problem, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijie Xu , Jiayan Fang , Xiang-Yang Li

We investigate the Chern-Simons Higgs models for p-Laplacian on a connected finite graph, employing topological degree theory as our main tool. Notably, we overcome the difficulties arising from the nonlinearity of p-Laplacian operator and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Chunlian Liu , Yating Ge , Linfeng Wang

Singularities play an important role in General Relativity and have been shown to be an inherent feature of most physically reasonable space-times. Despite this, there are many aspects of singularities that are not qualitatively or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Richard A. Barry , Susan M. Scott

In this paper, we establish the relation between classic invariants of graphs and their integer Laplacian eigenvalues, focusing on a subclass of chordal graphs, the strictly chordal graphs, and pointing out how their computation can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Nair Abreu , Claudia Marcela Justel , Lilian Markenzon