Non-Markovian heat flows on directed hypergraphs
Dynamical Systems
2025-10-31 v2 Analysis of PDEs
Combinatorics
Abstract
We introduce a semigroup framework for Laplacians on directed hypergraphs, extending the classical heat flow models on graphs and establishing hypergraphs as prototypical models for non-Markovian diffusion. We apply spectral surgery methods to derive eigenvalue bounds, thus describing large-time behaviour of the heat flow. Unlike on standard graphs, heat flows on directed hypergraphs may lose positivity and/or -contractivity, yet can recover them eventually or asymptotically under specific combinatorial configurations: examples based on duals of oriented graph and realisations of the Fano plane illustrate these phenomena. Our approach combines combinatorial, order-theoretic and linear-algebraic methods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.17497,
title = {Non-Markovian heat flows on directed hypergraphs},
author = {Delio Mugnolo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17497},
year = {2025}
}