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Let M be a smooth closed (compact without boundary) Riemannian manifold of dimension n and P a q-dimensional smooth submanifold of M. U will denote the tubular neighborhood of P in M. Let E be a smooth vector bundle over M. Here we will…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Martin N. Ndumu

In this paper we continue the analysis of spectral problems in the setting of complete manifolds with fibred boundary metrics, also referred to as $\phi$-metrics, as initiated in our previous work. We consider the Hodge Laplacian for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Mohammad Talebi , Boris Vertman

In geometric analysis, an index theorem relates the difference of the numbers of solutions of two differential equations to the topological structure of the manifold or bundle concerned, sometimes using the heat kernels of two higher-order…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 S. A. Fulling , P. Kuchment , J. H. Wilson

Let $L$ be an elliptic differential operator on a complete connected Riemannian manifold $M$ such that the associated heat kernel has two-sided Gaussian bounds as well as a Gaussian type gradient estimate. Let $L^{(\aa)}$ be the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Feng-Yu Wang , Xicheng Zhang

We calculate the closed analytic form of the solution of heat kernel equation for the anisotropic generalizations of flat Laplacian. We consider a UV as well as UV/IR interpolating generalizations. In all cases, the result can be expressed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Mamiya , A. Pinzul

We establish Gaussian-type upper bounds on the heat kernel for a continuous-time random walk on a graph with unbounded weights under an ergodicity assumption. For the proof we use Davies' perturbation method, where we show a maximal…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Sebastian Andres , Jean-Dominique Deuschel , Martin Slowik

Networks constitute fundamental organizational structures across biological systems, although conventional graph-theoretic analyses capture exclusively pairwise interactions, thereby omitting the intricate higher-order relationships that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-23 Sixtus Dakurah

We study the heat kernel of the sub-Laplacian L on the CR sphere S2n+1. An explicit and geometrically meaningful formula for the heat kernel is obtained. As a by-product we recover in a simple way the Green function of the conformal sub-…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Fabrice Baudoin , Jing Wang

A \emph{$t$-treewidth-modulator} of a graph $G$ is a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ such that the treewidth of $G-X$ is at most some constant $t-1$. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to compute a decomposition scheme for graphs $G$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Eun Jung Kim , Alexander Langer , Christophe Paul , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Ignasi Sau , Somnath Sikdar

We consider a quantum graph where the operator contains a potential. We show that this operator admits a heat kernel. Under some assumptions on the potential, this heat kernel admits an asymptotic expansion at t=0 with coefficients that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-13 Ralf Rueckriemen

Kernels on graphs have had limited options for node-level problems. To address this, we present a novel, generalized kernel for graphs with node feature data for semi-supervised learning. The kernel is derived from a regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yin-Cong Zhi , Felix L. Opolka , Yin Cheng Ng , Pietro Liò , Xiaowen Dong

We find a Gaussian off-diagonal heat kernel estimate for uniformly elliptic operators with measurable coefficients acting on regions $\Omega\subseteq\real^N$, where the order $2m$ of the operator satisfies $N<2m$. The estimate is expressed…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark P. Owen

In the manifold setting, we provide a series of spectral convergence results quantifying how the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-23 David B Dunson , Hau-Tieng Wu , Nan Wu

We study the behavior of the heat kernel of the Hodge Laplacian on a contact manifold endowed with a family of Riemannian metrics that blow-up the directions transverse to the contact distribution. We apply this to analyze the behavior of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Pierre Albin , Hadrian Quan

We establish a new formula for the heat kernel on regular trees in terms of classical I-Bessel functions. Although the formula is explicit, and a proof is given through direct computation, we also provide a conceptual viewpoint using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Gautam Chinta , Jay Jorgenson , Anders Karlsson

We consider the asymptotics of the discrete heat kernel on isoradial graphs for the case where the time and the edge lengths tend to zero simultaneously. Depending on the asymptotic ratio between time and edge lengths, we show that two…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Simon Schwarz , Anja Sturm , Max Wardetzky

Kernelized Gram matrix $W$ constructed from data points $\{x_i\}_{i=1}^N$ as $W_{ij}= k_0( \frac{ \| x_i - x_j \|^2} {\sigma^2} )$ is widely used in graph-based geometric data analysis and unsupervised learning. An important question is how…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Xiuyuan Cheng , Hau-Tieng Wu

Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled and direct approach for inference and learning on graphs. However, the lack of justified graph kernels for spatio-temporal modelling has held back their use in graph problems. We leverage an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Alexander Nikitin , ST John , Arno Solin , Samuel Kaski

We obtain Gaussian upper bounds for heat kernels of higher order differential operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions on bounded domains in $\R^N$. The bounds exhibit explicitly the nature of the spatial decay of the heat kernel close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-01 Narinder Claire

Heat kernels are used in this paper to express the analytic index of projectively invariant Dirac type operators on G-covering spaces of compact manifolds, as elements in the K-theory of certain unconditional completions of the twisted…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Varghese Mathai