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The characterization of complex networks with tools originating in geometry, for instance through the statistics of so-called Ricci curvatures, is a well established tool of network science. There exist various types of such Ricci…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Madhumita Mondal , Areejit Samal , Florentin Münch , Jürgen Jost

In this paper, we propose a modified Ricci flow, as well as a quasi-normalized Ricci flow, on arbitrary weighted graph. Each of these two flows has a unique global solution. In particular, these global existence and uniqueness results do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

We present a method for associating labeled directed graphs to finite-dimensional Lie algebras, thereby enabling rapid identification of key structural algebraic features. To formalize this approach, we introduce the concept of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Tim Heib , David Edward Bruschi

In this paper we study nonparametric mean curvature type flows in $M\times\mathbb{R}$ which are represented as graphs $(x,u(x,t))$ over a domain in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with prescribed contact angle. The speed of $u$ is the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Hengyu Zhou

This paper presents a new look at the neural network (NN) robustness problem, from the point of view of graph theory analysis, specifically graph curvature. Graph curvature (e.g., Ricci curvature) has been used to analyze system dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Shuhang Tan , Jayson Sia , Paul Bogdan , Radoslav Ivanov

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

We define the Ricci curvature of Markov chains on metric spaces as a local contraction coefficient of the random walk acting on the space of probability measures equipped with a Wasserstein transportation distance. For Brownian motion on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-30 Yann Ollivier

In this paper, we introduce a parameterized discrete curvature ($\alpha$-curvature) for piecewise linear metrics on polyhedral surfaces, which is a generalization of the classical discrete curvature. A discrete uniformization theorem is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Xu Xu

We prove a Li-Yau type eigenvalue-diameter estimate for signed graphs. That is, the nonzero eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a non-negatively curved signed graph are lower bounded by $1/D^2$ up to a constant, where $D$ stands for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Wei Chen , Shiping Liu

In this paper we prove matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation and the backward conjugate heat equation, both coupled with the Ricci flow. We then apply such estimates to establish the monotonicity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Xiaolong Li , Qi S. Zhang

Discrete time random walks on a finite set naturally translate via a one-to-one correspondence to discrete Laplace operators. Typically, Ollivier curvature has been investigated via random walks. We first extend the definition of Ollivier…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Florentin Münch , Radoslaw K. Wojciechowski

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

Recent work in hypergraph Ramsey theory has involved the introduction of a "lifting map" that associates a certain $3$-uniform hypergraph to a given graph, bounding cliques in a predictable way. In this paper, we interpret the lifting map…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Mark Budden , Josh Hiller , Tommy Meek , Andrew Penland

We prove that the Ricci flow that contracts a hyperbolic cusp has curvature decay like one over time squared. In order to do this, we prove a new Li-Yau type differential Harnack inequality for Ricci flow on surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Peter M. Topping , Hao Yin

We investigate the Kahler-Ricci flow on holomorphic fiber spaces whose generic fiber is a Calabi-Yau manifold. We establish uniform metric convergence to a metric on the base, away from the singular fibers, and show that the rescaled…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Valentino Tosatti , Ben Weinkove , Xiaokui Yang

We give a classification of all connected quartic graphs which are (infinity) curvature sharp in all vertices with respect to Bakry-\'Emery curvature. The result is based on a computer classification by F. Gurr and L. Watson May and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 David Cushing , Supanat Kamtue , Norbert Peyerimhoff , Leyna Watson May

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

We give a discrete Bonnet Myers type theorem for the effective diameter assuming positive Ollivier curvature. We prove that this diameter bound is attained if and only if the graph is a cocktail party graph, a Johnson graph, a halved cube,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Florentin Münch

We survey some recent work using Ricci flow to create a class of local definitions of weak lower scalar curvature bounds that is well defined for $C^0$ metrics. We discuss several properties of these definitions and explain some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

We give lower bounds on the maximum possible girth of an $r$-uniform, $d$-regular hypergraph with at most $n$ vertices, using the definition of a hypergraph cycle due to Berge. These differ from the trivial upper bound by an absolute…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-14 David Ellis , Nathan Linial