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By measured graphs we mean graphs endowed with a measure on the set of vertices. In this context, we explore the relations between the appropriate Cheeger constant and Poincar\'{e} inequalities. We prove that the so-called Cheeger…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Kang Li , Ján Špakula , Jiawen Zhang

The Carath\'eodory's Extension Theorem is a powerful tool that allows us to generate a measure, over a sigma-algebra, from a pre-measure defined over an algebra of sets. However, although this result reduces our work to define a measure by…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Patrick Oliveira

Coboundary expansion is a high dimensional generalization of the Cheeger constant to simplicial complexes. Originally, this notion was motivated by the fact that it implies topological expansion, but nowadays a significant part of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Tali Kaufman , Izhar Oppenheim , Shmuel Weinberger

In this paper, some new forms of the Cheeger's inequalities are established for general (maybe unbounded) symmetric forms, the resulting estimates improve and extend the ones obtained by Lawler and Sokal (1988) for bounded jump processes.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Mu-Fa Chen , Feng-Yu 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

We relate the nontrivial singular values $\sigma_2,\ldots,\sigma_n$ of the normalized adjacency matrix of an Eulerian directed graph to combinatorial measures of graph expansion: \\ 1. We introduce a new directed analogue of conductance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jake Ruotolo , Salil Vadhan

Let $G$ be a finite group. It was remarked by Breuillard-Green-Guralnick-Tao that if the Cayley graph $C(G,S)$ is an expander graph and is non-bipartite then the spectrum of the adjacency operator $T$ is bounded away from $-1$. In this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Arindam Biswas

In spectral graph theory, the Cheeger's inequality gives upper and lower bounds of edge expansion in normal graphs in terms of the second eigenvalue of the graph's Laplacian operator. Recently this inequality has been extended to undirected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-07 T-H. Hubert Chan , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Chenzi Zhang

We prove a general large sieve statement in the context of random walks on subgraphs of a given graph. This can be seen as a generalization of previously known results where one performs a random walk on a group enjoying a strong spectral…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Florent Jouve , Jean-Sébastien Sereni

We conjecture that finite graphs with positive Cheeger constant admit a spanning subgraph with positive Cheeger constant and girth proportional to the diameter. We prove this conjecture for regular expander graphs with large expansion. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-04 Itai Benjamini , Mikolaj Fraczyk , Gabor Kun

Let M be a bounded domain of a Euclidian space with smooth boundary. We relate the Cheeger constant of M and the conductance of a neighborhood graph defined on a random sample from M. By restricting the minimization defining the latter over…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Ery Arias-Castro , Bruno Pelletier , Pierre Pudlo

Let $G$ be a connected unimodular group equipped with a (left and hence right) Haar measure $\mu_G$, and suppose $A, B \subseteq G$ are nonempty and compact. An inequality by Kemperman gives us…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Yifan Jing , Chieu-Minh Tran

We prove Cheeger inequalities for p-Laplacians on finite and infinite weighted graphs. Unlike in previous works, we do not impose boundedness of the vertex degree, nor do we restrict ourselves to the normalized Laplacian and, more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Matthias Keller , Delio Mugnolo

This write-up contains some minor results and notes related to our work [HQ15] (some of them already known in the literature). In particular, it shows the following: - We show that a graph with polynomial expansion have sublinear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Sariel Har-Peled , Kent Quanrud

The Cheeger constant, $h_G$, is a measure of expansion within a graph. The classical Cheeger Inequality states: $\lambda_{1}/2 \le h_G \le \sqrt{2 \lambda_{1}}$ where $\lambda_1$ is the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the normalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Franklin H. J. Kenter

We study some properties of graphs (or, rather, graph sequences) defined by demanding that the number of subgraphs of a given type, with vertices in subsets of given sizes, approximatively equals the number expected in a random graph. It…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Svante Janson , Vera T. Sós

We prove a new generalization of the higher-order Cheeger inequality for partitioning with buffers. Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$. The buffered expansion of a set $S \subseteq V$ with a buffer $B \subseteq V \setminus S$ is the edge expansion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Liren Shan , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study three mixing properties of a graph: large algebraic connectivity, large Cheeger constant (isoperimetric number) and large spectral gap from 1 for the second largest eigenvalue of the transition probability matrix of the random walk…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Mikhail Isaev , K. V Isaeva

We study a natural discrete Bochner-type inequality on graphs, and explore its merit as a notion of curvature in discrete spaces. An appealing feature of this discrete version seems to be that it is fairly straightforward to compute this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Bo'az Klartag , Gady Kozma , Peter Ralli , Prasad Tetali

We introduce the $st$-cut version the Sparsest-Cut problem, where the goal is to find a cut of minimum sparsity among those separating two distinguished vertices $s,t\in V$. Clearly, this problem is at least as hard as the usual (non-$st$)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Robert Krauthgamer , Tal Wagner