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In the present paper, we introduce a concept of Ricci curvature on hypergraphs for a nonlinear Laplacian. We prove that our definition of the Ricci curvature is a generalization of Lin-Lu-Yau coarse Ricci curvature for graphs to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 MasaHiro Ikeda , Yu Kitabeppu , Yuuki Takai , Takato Uehara

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

We introduce the notion of integral Ricci curvature $I_{\kappa_0}$ for graphs, which measures the amount of Ricci curvature below a given threshold $\kappa_0$. We focus our attention on the Lin-Lu-Yau Ricci curvature. As applications, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Xavier Ramos Olivé

In this paper, we establish a simple formula for computing the Lin-Lu-Yau Ricci curvature on graphs. For any edge $xy$ in a simple locally finite graph $G$, the curvature $\kappa(x,y)$ can be expressed as a cost function of an optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Yupei Li , Linyuan Lu

In this paper, we consider the Ricci curvature of a directed graph, based on Lin-Lu-Yau's definition. We give some properties of the Ricci curvature, including conditions for a directed regular graph to be Ricci-flat. Moreover, we calculate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-24 Taiki Yamada

For undirected graphs, the Ricci curvature introduced by Lin-Lu-Yau has been widely studied from various perspectives, especially geometric analysis. In the present paper, we discuss generalization problem of their Ricci curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ryunosuke Ozawa , Yohei Sakurai , Taiki Yamada

We introduce a new version of a curvature-dimension inequality for non-negative curvature. We use this inequality to prove a logarithmic Li-Yau inequality on finite graphs. To formulate this inequality, we introduce a non-linear variant of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Florentin Münch

We derive explicit formulas for the Lin-Lu-Yau curvature and the Ollivier-Ricci curvature in terms of graph parameters and an optimal assignment. Utilizing these precise expressions, we examine the relationship between the Lin-Lu-Yau…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Moritz Hehl

The definition of Ricci curvature on graphs was given in Lin-Lu-Yau, Tohoku Math., 2011, which is a variation of Ollivier, J. Funct. Math., 2009. Recently, a powerful limit-free formulation of Lin-Lu-Yau curvature using the graph Laplacian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 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

Ollivier and Lin--Lu--Yau established the theory of graph Ricci curvature (LLY curvature) via optimal transport on graphs. Ikeda--Kitabeppu--Takai--Uehara introduced a new distance called the Kantorovich difference on hypergraphs and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Tomoya Akamatsu

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 consider the Ricci flow with prescribed curvature on the finite graph $G=(V,E)$. For any $e$ in $E$, $$\frac{d\omega(t,e)}{dt} = -(\kappa(t,e)-\kappa^*(e))\omega(t,e), t > 0,$$ where $\omega$ is the weight function,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yong Lin , Shuang Liu

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

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

An amply regular graph is a regular graph such that any two adjacent vertices have $\alpha$ common neighbors and any two vertices with distance $2$ have $\beta$ common neighbors. We prove a sharp lower bound estimate for the Lin--Lu--Yau…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Xueping Huang , Shiping Liu , Qing Xia

We study the existence of solutions of Ricci flow equations of Ollivier-Lin-Lu-Yau curvature defined on weighted graphs. Our work is motivated by\cite{NLLG} in which the discrete time Ricci flow algorithm has been applied successfully as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Shuliang Bai , Yong Lin , Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

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

We study a modified notion of Ollivier's coarse Ricci curvature on graphs introduced by Lin, Lu, and Yau in [11]. We establish a rigidity theorem for complete graphs that shows a connected finite simple graph is complete if and only if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Vincent Bonini , Conor Carroll , Uyen Dinh , Sydney Dye , Joshua Frederick , Erin Pearse

The problem of defining correctly geometric objects such as the curvature is a hard one in discrete geometry. In 2009, Ollivier defined a notion of curvature applicable to a wide category of measured metric spaces, in particular to graphs.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Benoît Loisel , Pascal Romon
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