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We study vertex sparsification for preserving distances in planar graphs. Given an edge-weighted planar graph with $k$ terminals, the goal is to construct an emulator, which is a smaller edge-weighted planar graph that contains the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 George Z. Li , Zihan Tan , Tianyi Zhang

We study some spectral properties of a matrix that is constructed as a combination of a Laplacian and an adjacency matrix of simple graphs. The matrix considered depends on a positive parameter, as such we consider the implications in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Riccardo Bonetto , Hildeberto Jardón Kojakhmetov

A graph $G$ is said to be \emph{determined by its spectrum} if any graph having the same spectrum as $G$ is isomorphic to $G$. Let $K_n \setminus P_{\ell}$ be the graph obtained from $K_n$ by removing edges of $P_\ell$, where $P_\ell$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Lihuan Mao , Sebastian M. Cioabă , Wei Wang

In the branch of mathematics known as graph theory, graphs are considered as a set of points, called vertices, with connections between these points, called edges. The purpose of this paper is to study mappings between two graphs that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeffrey Beyerl , Cameron Sharpe

We describe a simple algorithm for spectral graph sparsification, based on iterative computations of weighted spanners and uniform sampling. Leveraging the algorithms of Baswana and Sen for computing spanners, we obtain the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Ioannis Koutis

We prove delocalization of eigenvectors of vertex-transitive graphs via elementary estimates of the spectral projector. We recover in this way known results which were formerly proved using representation theory. Similar techniques show…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nicolas Burq , Cyril Letrouit

In this paper, we present GGSD, a novel graph generative model based on 1) the spectral decomposition of the graph Laplacian matrix and 2) a diffusion process. Specifically, we propose to use a denoising model to sample eigenvectors and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Giorgia Minello , Alessandro Bicciato , Luca Rossi , Andrea Torsello , Luca Cosmo

Spectral clustering is a fundamental method for graph partitioning, but its reliance on eigenvector computation limits scalability to massive graphs. Classical sparsification methods preserve spectral properties by sampling edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kaiwen He , Petros Drineas , Rajiv Khanna

Matching articulated shapes represented by voxel-sets reduces to maximal sub-graph isomorphism when each set is described by a weighted graph. Spectral graph theory can be used to map these graphs onto lower dimensional spaces and match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Diana Mateus , Radu Horaud , David Knossow , Fabio Cuzzolin , Edmond Boyer

Let $G$ be a simple connected undirected graph. The Laplacian spectral ratio of $G$, denoted by $R_L(G)$, is defined as the quotient between the largest and second smallest Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$, which is closely related to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Zhen Lin , Jiajia Wang , Min Cai

We study the algebraic connectivity (or second Laplacian eigenvalue) of token graphs, also called symmetric powers of graphs. The $k$-token graph $F_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-subsets of vertices from $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-05 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol

The parameter $q(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues over the family of symmetric matrices described by $G$. It is shown that the minimum number of edges necessary for a connected graph $G$ to have $q(G)=2$ is…

The study of complex systems benefits from graph models and their analysis. In particular, the eigendecomposition of the graph Laplacian lets emerge properties of global organization from local interactions; e.g., the Fiedler vector has the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Dimitri Van De Ville , Robin Demesmaeker , Maria Giulia Preti

The Laplacian spread of a graph is the difference between the largest eigenvalue and the second-smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of the graph. We find that the class of strongly regular graphs attains the maximum of largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Fan-Hsuan Lin , Chih-wen Weng

We investigate whether it is typical for a sparse graph to be uniquely characterized by its adjacency spectrum up to isomorphism. Our first result shows that the giant component of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph is cospectral when the average…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Nils Van de Berg , Alexander Van Werde

We study treewidth sparsifiers. Informally, given a graph $G$ of treewidth $k$, a treewidth sparsifier $H$ is a minor of $G$, whose treewidth is close to $k$, $|V(H)|$ is small, and the maximum vertex degree in $H$ is bounded. Treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

An oriented hypergraph is a hypergraph where each vertex-edge incidence is given a label of $+1$ or $-1$. The adjacency and Laplacian eigenvalues of an oriented hypergraph are studied. Eigenvalue bounds for both the adjacency and Laplacian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Nathan Reff

A popular graph clustering method is to consider the embedding of an input graph into R^k induced by the first k eigenvectors of its Laplacian, and to partition the graph via geometric manipulations on the resulting metric space. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Tamal K. Dey , Pan Peng , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

The original contributions of this paper are twofold: a new understanding of the influence of noise on the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian of a set of image patches, and an algorithm to estimate a denoised set of patches from a noisy…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-03-01 Francois G. Meyer , Xilin Shen

Sparse graphs with bounded average degree form a rich class of discrete structures where local geometry strongly influences global behavior. The Benjamini-Schramm (BS) convergence offers a natural framework to describe their asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Charles Bordenave