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Ricci curvature was proposed by Ollivier in a general framework of metric measure spaces, and it has been studied extensively in the context of graphs in recent years. In this paper we prove upper bounds for Ollivier's Ricci curvature for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya , Sumit Mukherjee

Connections between continuous and discrete worlds tend to be elusive. One example is curvature. Even though there exist numerous nonequivalent definitions of graph curvature, none is known to converge in any limit to any traditional…

Regular graphs which are Bonnet-Myers sharp (in the sense of Ollivier Ricci curvature) and self-centered have been completely classified, and it is a natural question whether the condition of self-centeredness can be removed in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Supanat Kamtue

We express the discrete Ricci curvature of a graph as the minimal eigenvalue of a family of matrices, one for each vertex of a graph whose entries depend on the local adjaciency structure of the graph. Using this method we compute or bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Viola Siconolfi

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 are concerned with the study of different notions of curvature on graphs. We show that if a graph has stronger inner-outer curvature growth than a model graph, then it has faster volume growth too. We also study the relationhips of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Adriani , Alberto G. Setti

Discrete curvatures are quantities associated to the nodes and edges of a graph that reflect the local geometry around them. These curvatures have a rich mathematical theory and they have recently found success as a tool to analyze networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-02 Michelle Roost , Karel Devriendt , Giulio Zucal , Jürgen Jost

We are interested in the general question: to what extent are the spectral properties of a graph connected to the distance function? Our motivation is a concrete example of this question that is due to Steinerberger. We provide some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Kelly B Yancey , Matthew Yancey

We classify all cubic graphs with either non-negative Ollivier-Ricci curvature or non-negative Bakry-\'Emery curvature everywhere. We show in both curvature notions that the non-negatively curved graphs are the prism graphs and the M\"obius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 David Cushing , Riikka Kangaslampi , Valtteri Lipiäinen , Shiping Liu , George William Stagg

We consider the notion of discrete Ricci curvature for graphs defined by Schmuckenschl{\"a}ger \cite{shmuck} and compute its value for Bruhat graphs associated to finite Coxeter groups. To do so we work with the geometric realization of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Viola Siconolfi

We give rigidity results for the discrete Bonnet-Myers diameter bound and the Lichnerowicz eigenvalue estimate. Both inequalities are sharp if and only if the underlying graph is a hypercube. The proofs use well-known semigroup methods as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

In this paper, we explore the relationship between one of the most elementary and important properties of graphs, the presence and relative frequency of triangles, and a combinatorial notion of Ricci curvature. We employ a definition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu

In recent years, discrete spaces such as graphs attract much attention as models for physical spacetime or as models for testing the spirit of non-commutative geometry. In this work, we construct the differential algebras for graphs by…

q-alg · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Sunggoo Cho , Kwang Sung Park

An oriented graph is a directed graph without any cycle of length at most 2. To push a vertex of a directed graph is to reverse the orientation of the arcs incident to that vertex. Klostermeyer and MacGillivray defined push graphs which are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Sagnik Sen

Two complete graphs are connected by adding some edges. The obtained graph is called the gluing graph. The more we add edges, the larger the Ricci curvature on it becomes. We calculate the Ricci curvature of each edge on the gluing graph…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Taiki Yamada

In this paper, we compare Ollivier Ricci curvature and Bakry-\'Emery curvature notions on combinatorial graphs and discuss connections to various types of Ricci flatness. We show that non-negativity of Ollivier Ricci curvature implies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 David Cushing , Supanat Kamtue , Riikka Kangaslampi , Shiping Liu , Norbert Peyerimhoff

Lott-Sturm-Villani theory of curvature on geodesic spaces has been extended to discrete graph spaces by C. L{\'e}onard by replacing W2-Wasserstein geodesics by Schr{\"o}odinger bridges in the definition of entropic curvature [23, 25, 24].…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Paul-Marie Samson

We study the eigenvalues of the connection Laplacian on a graph with an orthogonal group or unitary group signature. We establish higher order Buser type inequalities, i.e., we provide upper bounds for eigenvalues in terms of Cheeger…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

In this paper, we establish Betti number estimates for graphs with non-negative Ollivier curvature, and for graphs with non-negative Bakry-\'Emery curvature, providing a discrete analogue of a classical result by Bochner for manifolds.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Moritz Hehl , Florentin Münch

We have performed an empirical comparison of two distinct notions of discrete Ricci curvature for graphs or networks, namely, the Forman-Ricci curvature and Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Importantly, these two discretizations of the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Areejit Samal , R. P. Sreejith , Jiao Gu , Shiping Liu , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost