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The coarse Ricci curvature of graphs introduced by Ollivier as well as its modification by Lin-Lu-Yau have been studied from various aspects. In this paper, we propose a new transport distance appropriate for hypergraphs and study a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Tomoya Akamatsu

In a previous work, the authors introduced a Lin-Lu-Yau type Ricci curvature for directed graphs referring to the formulation of the Chung Laplacian. The aim of this note is to provide a von Renesse-Sturm type characterization of our lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Ryunosuke Ozawa , Yohei Sakurai , Taiki Yamada

We prove diameter bounds for graphs having positive Ricci-curvature bound in Bakry-Emery sense. One result using only curvature and maximal vertex degree is sharp in case of hypercubes. The other result depends on an additional dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

In a previous work, the authors have introduced a Lin-Lu-Yau type Ricci curvature for directed graphs, and obtained a diameter comparison of Bonnet-Myers type. In this paper, we investigate rigidity properties for the equality case, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Ryunosuke Ozawa , Yohei Sakurai , Taiki Yamada

In this paper we prove localised weighted curvature integral estimates for solutions to the Ricci flow in the setting of a smooth four dimensional Ricci flow or a closed $n$-dimensional K\"ahler Ricci flow. These integral estimates improve…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Jiawei Liu , Miles Simon

We define the Ricci curvature on simplicial complexes by modifying the definition of the Ricci curvature on graphs, and we prove the upper and lower bounds of the Ricci curvature. These properties are generalizations of previous studies.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Taiki Yamada

The definition of Ricci curvature on graphs in Bakry-\'Emery's sense based on curvature dimension condition was introduced by Lin and Yau [\emph{Math. Res. Lett.}, 2010]. Hua and Lin [\emph{Comm. Anal. Geom.}, 2019] classified unweighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Huiqiu Lin , Zhe You

We investigate the Ollivier-Ricci curvature and its modification introduced by Lin, Lu, and Yau on locally finite graphs. The main contribution of this work is a lower bound on the minimum vertex degree of a graph ensuring non-negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Moritz Hehl

We study the Ollivier-Ricci curvature and its modification introduced by Lin, Lu, and Yau on graphs. We provide a complete characterization of all graphs with Lin-Lu-Yau curvature at least one. We then explore the relationship between the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Moritz Hehl

Curvature serves as a potent and descriptive invariant, with its efficacy validated both theoretically and practically within graph theory. We employ a definition of generalized Ricci curvature proposed by Ollivier, which Lin and Yau later…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-24 Wonwoo Kang , Heehyun Park

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

We introduce a novel definition of curvature for hypergraphs, a natural generalization of graphs, by introducing a multi-marginal optimal transport problem for a naturally defined random walk on the hypergraph. This curvature, termed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Shahab Asoodeh , Tingran Gao , James Evans

In this paper, we generalize Lin-Lu-Yau's Ricci curvature to weighted graphs and give a simple limit-free definition. We prove two extremal results on the sum of Ricci curvatures for weighted graph. A weighted graph $G=(V,E,d)$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Shuliang Bai , An Huang , Linyuan Lu , Shing-Tung Yau

In this paper, we derive new sharp diameter bounds for distance regular graphs, which better answer a problem raised by Neumaier and Penji\' c in many cases. Our proof is built upon a relation between the diameter and long-scale Ollivier…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Kaizhe Chen , Shiping Liu

Lin-Lu-Yau introduced an interesting notion of Ricci curvature for graphs and obtained a complete characterization for all Ricci-flat graphs with girth at least five [1]. In this paper, we propose a concrete approach to construct an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Weihua He , Jun Luo , Chao Yang , Wei Yuan

In this survey, we study three different notions of curvature that are defined on graphs, namely, combinatorial curvature, Bakry-\'Emery curvature, and Ollivier's Ricci curvature. For each curvature notion, the definition and its motivation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Supanat Kamtue

We investigate analytic and geometric implications of non-constant Ricci curvature bounds. We prove a Lichnerowicz eigenvalue estimate and finiteness of the fundamental group assuming that $L+2 Ric$ is a positive operator where $L$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Florentin Münch , Christian Rose

In this paper, we prove that any simple $\{C_3,C_5\}$-free non-empty connected graph $G$ with LLY curvature bounded below by $\kappa>0$ has the order at most $2^{\frac{2}{\kappa}}$. This upper bound is achieved if and only if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-29 E. G. K. M. Gamlath , Xiaonan Liu , Linyuan Lu , Xiaofan Yuan

We define a hybrid between Ollvier and Bakry Emery curvature on graphs with dependence on a variable neighborhood. The hexagonal lattice is non-negatively curved under this new curvature notion. Bonnet-Myers diameter bounds and Lichnerowicz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Mark Kempton , Gabor Lippner , Florentin Munch

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite, combinatorial graph. We define a notion of curvature on the vertices $V$ via the inverse of the resistance distance matrix. We prove that this notion of curvature has a number of desirable properties. Graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Karel Devriendt , Andrea Ottolini , Stefan Steinerberger