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We investigate quantum graphs with infinitely many vertices and edges without the common restriction on the geometry of the underlying metric graph that there is a positive lower bound on the lengths of its edges. Our central result is a…

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We consider the problem of minimising the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Laplacian with some prescribed boundary condition over collections of convex domains of prescribed perimeter or diameter. It is known that these minimisation problems are…

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We investigate in this paper the existence of a metric which maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on Riemannian surfaces. We first prove that, in a given conformal class, there always exists such a maximizing metric which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Romain Petrides

It is proven following [18[ that Laplacians with standard vertex continuous on metric trees and with standard and Dirichlet conditions on arbitrary metric graphs possess an infinite sequence of simple eigenvalues with the eigenfunctions not…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Pavel Kurasov

We prove that the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold with cylindrical boundary can be approximated by the spectrum of truncated graph Laplacians constructed from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Anusha Bhattacharya

We study Harper operators and the closely related discrete magnetic Laplacians (DML) on a graph with a free action of a discrete group, as defined by Sunada. A main result in this paper is that the spectral density function of DMLs…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Mathai , S. Yates

We study the location of the spectrum of the Laplacian on compact metric graphs with complex Robin-type vertex conditions, also known as $\delta$ conditions, on some or all of the graph vertices. We classify the eigenvalue asymptotics as…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-06 James B. Kennedy , Robin Lang

On a finite connected metric graph, we establish upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian. These bounds depend on the length, the Betti number, and the number of pendant vertices. For trees, these estimates are sharp. We also…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Sinan Ariturk

We study the interplay between spectrum, geometry and boundary conditions for two distinguished self-adjoint realisations of the Laplacian on infinite metric graphs, the so-called riedrichs and Neumann extensions. We introduce a new…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Marco Düfel , James B. Kennedy , Delio Mugnolo , Marvin Plümer , Matthias Täufer

There is a deep and interesting connection between the topological properties of a graph and the behaviour of the dynamical system defined on it. We analyse various kind of graphs, with different contrasting connectivity or degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Barbara Giunti , Vincenzo Perri

We study the existence and properties of metrics maximising the first Laplace eigenvalue among conformal metrics of unit volume on Riemannian surfaces. We describe a general approach to this problem and its higher eigenvalue versions via…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-13 Gerasim Kokarev

In this paper we give an estimate on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of discretized elliptic boundary values problems. We first prove a simple min-max principle for selfadjoint operators on a Hilbert space. Then we show two sided…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Jinchao Xu , Hongxuan Zhang , Ludmil Zikatanov

We develop the theory of torsional rigidity -- a quantity routinely considered for Dirichlet Laplacians on bounded planar domains -- for Laplacians on metric graphs with at least one Dirichlet vertex. Using a variational characterization…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Delio Mugnolo , Marvin Plümer

The aim of the present paper is to analyse the spectrum of Laplace and Dirac type operators on metric graphs. In particular, we show for equilateral graphs how the spectrum (up to exceptional eigenvalues) can be described by a natural…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-01-15 Olaf Post

Motivated by relativistic materials, we develop a numerical scheme to support existing or state new conjectures in the spectral optimisation of eigenvalues of the Dirac operator, subject to infinite-mass boundary conditions. We study the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Pedro R. S. Antunes , Francisco Bento , David Krejcirik

We introduce a new optimization problem regarding embeddings of a graph into a Euclidean space and discuss its relation to the two, mutually dual, optimizations problems introduced by Goering-Helmberg-Wappler. We prove that the Laplace…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Takumi Gomyou , Toshimasa Kobayashi , Takefumi Kondo , Shin Nayatani

We investigate the relationship between one of the classical notions of boundaries for infinite graphs, \emph{graph ends}, and self-adjoint extensions of the minimal Kirchhoff Laplacian on a metric graph. We introduce the notion of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Aleksey Kostenko , Delio Mugnolo , Noema Nicolussi

We define a number of natural (from geometric and combinatorial points of view) deformation spaces of valuations on finite graphs, and study functions over these deformation spaces. These functions include both direct metric invariants…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Jakobson , Igor Rivin

We consider the bulk eigenvalue statistics of Laplacian matrices of large Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs in the regime $p \geq N^{\delta}/N$ for any fixed $\delta >0$. We prove a local law down to the optimal scale $\eta \gtrsim N^{-1}$…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Jiaoyang Huang , Benjamin Landon

We prove a quantitative uncertainty principle at low energies for the Laplacian on fairly general weighted graphs with a uniform explicit control of the constants in terms of geometric quantities. A major step consists in establishing lower…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Daniel Lenz , Peter Stollmann , Gunter Stolz