English
Related papers

Related papers: Generating Functions of Random Walks on Graphs

200 papers

We develop a novel framework for modeling diffusion on complex networks by constructing Laplacian-like operators based on walks around a graph. Our approach introduces a parametric family of walk-based Laplacians that naturally incorporate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Francesca Arrigo , Fabio Durastante

Consider $n$ points independently sampled from a density $p$ of class $\mathcal{C}^2$ on a smooth compact $d$-dimensional sub-manifold $\mathcal{M}$ of $\mathbb{R}^m$, and consider the generator of a random walk visiting these points…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Hélène Guérin , Dinh-Toan Nguyen , Viet-Chi Tran

Random walks are used for modeling various dynamics in, for example, physical, biological, and social contexts. Furthermore, their characteristics provide us with useful information on the phase transition and critical phenomena of even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoki Masuda , Norio Konno

Conditions are provided under which an endomorphism on quasisymmetric functions gives rise to a left random walk on the descent algebra which is also a lumping of a left random walk on permutations. Spectral results are also obtained.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Patricia Hersh , Samuel K. Hsiao

Random walk on changing graphs is considered. For sequences of finite graphs increasing monotonically towards a limiting infinite graph, we establish transition probability upper bounds. It yields sufficient transience criteria for simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Ruojun Huang

We study a generating function for the sum over fatgraphs with specified valences of vertices and faces, inversely weighted by the order of their symmetry group. A compact expression is found for general (i.e. non necessarily connected)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Di Francesco , C. Itzykson

Large unweighted directed graphs are commonly used to capture relations between entities. A fundamental problem in the analysis of such networks is to properly define the similarity or dissimilarity between any two vertices. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-03 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Yi Sun , Tommi S. Jaakkola

We give a new determinant expression for the characteristic polynomial of the bond scattering matrix of a quantum graph G. Also, we give a decomposition formula for the characteristic polynomial of the bond scattering matrix of a regular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Yusuke Higuchi , Norio Konno , Iwao Sato , Etsuo Segawa

Germ order is a non-standard stochastic order defined through the comparison of the generating functions of the processes. This order was first introduced for branching random walks with a constant breeding law and independent dispersal of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Daniela Bertacchi , Fabio Zucca

A graph generative model defines a distribution over graphs. One type of generative model is constructed by autoregressive neural networks, which sequentially add nodes and edges to generate a graph. However, the likelihood of a graph under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-15 Xiaohui Chen , Xu Han , Jiajing Hu , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Liping Liu

In this article we obtain new expressions for the generating functions counting (non-singular) walks with small steps in the quarter plane. Those are given in terms of infinite series, while in the literature, the standard expressions use…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Irina Kurkova , Kilian Raschel

Focusing on coupling between edges, we generalize the relationship between the normalized graph Laplacian and random walks on graphs by devising an appropriate normalization for the Hodge Laplacian -- the generalization of the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michael T. Schaub , Austin R. Benson , Paul Horn , Gabor Lippner , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper we propose a spectral flow for graph Laplacians, and prove that it counts the number of nodal domains for a given Laplace eigenvector. This extends work done for Laplacians on $\mathbb{R}^n$ to the graph setting. We mention…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Wesley Hamilton

We study the nature of the generating series of some models of walks with small steps in the three quarter plane. More precisely, we restrict ourselves to the situation where the group is infinite, the kernel has genus one, and the step set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Thomas Dreyfus , Amélie Trotignon

Quantum walks on graphs are ubiquitous in quantum computing finding a myriad of applications. Likewise, random walks on graphs are a fundamental building block for a large number of algorithms with diverse applications. While the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Matheus G. Andrade , Franklin Marquezino , Daniel R. Figueiredo

Random walk spaces are a general framework for the study of PDEs. They include as particular cases locally finite weighted connected graphs and nonlocal settings involving symmetric integrable kernels on $\mathbb{R}^N$. We are interested in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 W. Górny , J. M. Mazón , J. Toledo

Spatially homogeneous random walks in $(\mathbb{Z}_{+})^{2}$ with non-zero jump probabilities at distance at most 1, with non-zero drift in the interior of the quadrant and absorbed when reaching the axes are studied. Absorption…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Irina Kurkova , Kilian Raschel

Quantum walks in general graphs, or more specifically scattering on graphs, encompass enough complexity to perform universal quantum computation. Any given quantum circuit can be broken down into single- and two-qubit gates, which can then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Luna Lima Keller , Daniel Jost Brod

We aim to describe a droplet bouncing on a vibrating bath using a simple and highly versatile model inspired from quantum mechanics. Close to the Faraday instability, a long-lived surface wave is created at each bounce, which serves as a…

We construct random Morse functions on surfaces by random walk and compute related distributions. We study the space of Morse functions through these random variables. We consider subspaces characterized by the surfaces with boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Boldizsar Kalmar