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Graph energy and spectral radius
Suppose $G$ is a simple graph of order $n$ with eigenvalues $\lambda_1\geq \cdots\geq \lambda_n$. I've encountered the quantity $L=\big\vert |\lambda_1|-|\lambda_2|-\cdots-|\lambda_n|\big\vert$. Note ...
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Non-regular cospectral graphs with same degree sequences
I am looking for a large family (infinite pairs) of cospectral graphs with these condtions:
The graphs are non-regular,
Minimum degree is greater than $1$,
The degree sequences of these cospectral ...
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Intuitively, what does a graph Laplacian represent?
Recently I saw an MO post Algebraic graph invariant $\mu(G)$ which links Four-Color-Theorem with Schrödinger operators: further topological characterizations of graphs? that got me interested. ...
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Algebraic graph invariant $\mu(G)$ which links Four-Color-Theorem with Schrödinger operators: further topological characterizations of graphs?
30 years ago, Yves Colin de Verdière introduced the algebraic graph invariant $\mu(G)$ for any undirected graph $G$, see [1]. It was motivated by the study of the second eigenvalue of certain ...
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Fiedler vector, what else?
In the spectral analysis of a graph with 1 connected component, the first non-trivial eigenvector (corresponding to the non-zero smallest eigenvalue) is also called the Fiedler vector. This vector is ...
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Upper bound for smallest eigenvalue of infinite family of graphs
Let $\left\{G_{n}\right\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of regular simple connected graphs with at least one edge such that $G_i$ is an induced sub-graph of $G_{i+1}$ and is not equal to $G_{i+1}$.
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Infinite trees whose spectrum has more than 3 connected components
I was wondering whether there exists any infinite tree $T$ such that the action of $\mathit{Aut}(T)$ on the set of vertices $V=V(T)$ has finitely many orbits, and whose spectrum $\sigma(T)$ has ...
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Combinatorial Skeleton of a Riemannian manifold
In Chung and Yau's paper: "A combinatorial trace formula" (MSN), they proved
a combinatorial version of Selberg's trace formula for lattice graphs.
I learned also in the setup that it makes sense to ...
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What's the full assumption for Laplacian matrix $L=BB^T=\Delta-A$?
Graph with no-selfloop, no-multi-edges, unweighted.
directed
For directed graph Adjacency matrix is a non-symmetric matrix $A_{in}$ considering indegree or $A_{out}$ considering outdegree. Degree ...
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Bounds on spectral radius using chromatic number
I am struggling with this question:
If I have a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges with chromatic number $d$ then how can I give a bound(lower and upper) on its spectral radius in ...
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Clustering on tree
I am looking for a method that would identify clusters in a tree-like structure. In the figure below you can see a very simple example where one can visually identify distinct branches with a lot of ...
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Local-Global Principle in Graph Spectrum
The question is a bit vague, but any ideas/directions will be appreciated.
Let us fix an $n$-vertex $d$-regular graph $G=(V,E)$. As I understand it, the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix $A$ of $G$ ...
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Relation between nullity of components to its parent graph
Let $G$ be an undirected graph and the corresponding adjacency matrix be $A$. Let $v$ be a cut-vertex of $G$. Let $G_1, G_2,\dots, G_k$ are the connected components of the induced graph $G-v$ ( the ...
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Generalised Isospectrality of Graphs
Q: Is there a graph matrix-representation (not necessarily an $n \times n$ matrix for an $n$-graph) such that isospectrality implies graph-isomorphism? For instance, would the simple distance-matrix ...
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Intuition on Kronecker Product of a Transition Matrix
Let $T$ be a $N\times N$ transition matrix for a markov chain with $N$ states. Thus $T_{ij}$ is the probability of transition from state $i$ to state $j$ (and thus rows summing to one). Now consider ...
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Reasons for difficulty of Graph Isomorphism and why Johnson graphs are important?
In http://jeremykun.com/2015/11/12/a-quasipolynomial-time-algorithm-for-graph-isomorphism-the-details/ it is mentioned:
'In discussing Johnson graphs, Babai said they were a source of “unspeakable ...
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Lp norm estimates for the inverse of the Laplacian on a graph
I am looking at a finite connected graph and I would like to know what is the best [i.e. largest] constant $\lambda_p$ in
$$
\sum_x f(x) =0 \implies \| \Delta^{-1} f\|_{\ell^p} \leq \lambda_p^{-1} \|...
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Decomposition of a regular graph and connected subgraphs
I have asked almost same question earlier. I have been told that my question was poorly written, so I am trying to write it more clearly in this post. Also, this time I would be a little different in ...
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Possibility of Disconnected Subgraphs of a $k$ Connected $r$ regular Graph under a given condition
Context: Given a adjacency matrix A of a $r$-regular graph $G$ (not complete graph $K_{r+1}$) . $G$ is $k$ connected.
The matrix A can be divided into 4 sub-matrices based on adjacency of vertex $x ...
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Interpreting (Fiedler) spectral bisectioning
I would appreciate help on how to interpret the results of spectral bisectioning of a graph.
Given a $G=(V,E)$ with size $N$ represented by $Q$ its Laplacian matrix where the eigenvalues are ordered ...
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Discrete p-Laplacian
One of the definitions of the discrete (weighted) $p$-Laplacian is the following:
$$\Delta_{p,w}u(x):=\sum_y |u(y)-u(x)|^{p-2}(u(y)-u(x))w(x,y).$$
Consider the one dimensional case. Then the free ...
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Matching polynomials and Ramanujan graphs
Is it purely coincidental that the same number $2\sqrt{d-1}$ appears in these two following apparently disparate concepts?
A $d-$regular graph is said to be called Ramanujan if its adjacency ...
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Graph lifts and representation theory
Is there any connection known between the two?
One can naturally define lifts of graphs by groups like $\mathbb{Z}_k$ and hence I wonder if representation theoretic properties can be used to say ...
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When is a $2$-lift of a graph connected? [closed]
Let $\ (V\ E)\ $ be a graph, i.e. $\ E\subseteq\binom V2.\ $ A $2$-lift pattern of a graph is a function $\ e:E\rightarrow\{-1\,\ 1\}.\ $ The induced 2-lift is defined as the graph $\ V\times\{-1\,\ ...
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Laplacian spectrum of $2-$lifts of graphs
We know that a $2-$ lift of a graph is specified by a $\pm 1$ assignment on the edges of the graph ( given as a signing matrix) denoting which edge is to be duplicated by the identity permutation on ...
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The Bilu-Linial conjecture and Ramanujan graphs
The Bilu-Linial conjecture claims that every $d-$regular graph has a $2-$lift such that for the signing matrix has its eigenvalues between $[-2\sqrt{d-1},2\sqrt{d-1}]$ (the ``signing matrix" is the ...
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Are these particular kinds of matrices well known?
Given two positive integers $n$ and $a \leq \frac{n}{2}$ consider a $n \times n$ matrix $A$ such that,
all the diagonal entries are either $a$ or $a+1$
all the non-zero off-diagonal entries are $\pm ...
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What is a "Ramanujan Graph"?
I noticed an apparent conflict in the definition in literature about what is a "Ramanujan graph, which I was wondering if someone could kindly clarify.
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The Hoory-Linial-Wigderson review on ...
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Do perfect matching(s) have signatures in the graph eigenvalues?
If the edges of a bipartite graph are such that they can be seen as a disjoint union of perfect matchings then will this somehow reflect in the eigenvalues of the Laplacian?
It would be helpful to ...
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Are these three different notions of a graph Laplacian?
I seem to see three different things that are being called the Laplacian of a graph,
One is the matrix $L_1 = D - A$ where $D$ is a diagonal matrix consisting of degrees of all the vertices and $A$ ...
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Is there a continuous analogue of Ramanujan graphs?
I think it might help to think of the following definition of a Ramanujan graph - a graph whose non-trivial eigenvalues are such that their magnitude is bounded above by the spectral radius of its ...
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Can we count isospectral graphs?
On n-vertices, how many isospectral graphs exist?
[..I saw this previous "historic" discussion between two of the stalwarts in this field - Operation on Isospectral graphs ]
Given a graph are ...
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Recovering Spherical Harmonics from Discrete Samples
Consider a collection of $N$ points on the 2-sphere chosen uniformly at random. Let's say that there's an edge between two such vertices if their geodesic distance is less than $r_N$. The resulting ...
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Neighborhood overlap matrix for a bipartite graph
Let $G$ be an undirected, simple, bipartite graph with parts $V$ (having $n$ vertices) and $W$ (having $m$ vertices). Define the following $n$-by-$n$ matrix: for any $i,j \in V$, $$a_{ij} = |N_i \cap ...
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interpretation of generalized eigenvalue/vectors in spectral graph theory [closed]
Let us say I have a symmetric graph adjacency matrix A, a degree matrix D, a laplacian L (D-A). I have a generalized eigenvalue equation $Av=\lambda Lv$. Does the eigenvalue/vectors produced in this ...
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positive semidefinite matrix condition
There is a great work of Alizadeh that in section 4 speaks about Minimizing sum of the first few(k-largest) eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. Instead of a symmetric model we use the weighted ...
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Second eigenvalue of a weighted tree
Hello,
I am interested in upper bounding the second largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a graph $T$ with the following property:
1. $T$ contains self loops.
2. $T$ contains multiple edges (...
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Recovering a partition from spectral properties of the graph Laplacian
Let $G$ be a weighted graph with vertices $V$. Let $W$ be its real-valued, non-negative, $|V|\times|V|$ adjacency/affinity matrix. Let $L = \mathrm{diag}(W\mathbf1)-W$ be the (unnormalized) graph ...
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Optimization over Spectral Laplacian in cycles and trees
Is there any idea on how one can deal with an optimization problem of sum of k largest eigenvalues(min) of Laplacian matrix of a simple cycle or tree?
I would like to use semidefinite programming for ...
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Spectrum of composition of graphs( lexicographic product)
I was wondering how to relate the spectra of the composition of two graphs in term of the factors...someone can help me?
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Global solution for spectral clustering
I used spectral clustering for directed graphs suggested by Dengyong Zhou paper to partition the graph.I selected the eigen vectors corresponding to k largest eigen values and then I use kmeans or FCM ...
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What is the spectrum of the Rado graph?
Isn't this question self-explanatory? There is a lot of literature about the Rado graph $R$ in various places. This graph is also known as the "Random Graph" because a countable random graph is ...
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Is the Cheeger constant of an induced subgraph of a cube at most 1?
It is known that the
Cheeger constant
of a
hypercube graph $Q_n$
is exactly $1$, regardless of its dimension $n$. Is $1$ also an upper bound
on the Cheeger constant of nontrivial induced connected ...
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Boundaries of the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix (or of its Lapacian)
Given the adjacency matrix $A_{ij}$ of a graph with $N$ vertices and $M$ links (or any binary symmetric matrix of size $N \times N$), is it possible to establish lower and upper boundaries of its ...
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Singular values of differences of square matrices
Suppose $A, B \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$. Let $\sigma_1(A),\ldots,\sigma_n(A)$ be the singular values of $A$, and let $\sigma_1(B),\ldots,\sigma_n(B)$ be the singular values of $B$. If I know these ...
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What is the Cheeger constant of a cubical subset of the cubic lattice?
The Cheeger constant of a finite graph measures the "bottleneckedness" of the graph, and is defined as:
$$h(G) := \min\Bigg\lbrace\frac{|\partial A|}{|A|} \Bigg| A\subset V, 0<|A|\leq \frac{|V|}{2}...
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Combinatorial proof of (a special case of) the spectral theorem?
The spectral theorem for a real $n \times n$ symmetric matrix $A$ says that $A$ is diagonalizable with all eigenvalues real. If $A$ happens to have non-negative integer entries, it can be interpreted ...
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Fast Fourier transform for graph Laplacian?
In the case of a regularly-sampled scalar-valued signal $f$ on the real line, we can construct a discrete linear operator $A$ such that $A(f)$ approximates $\partial^2 f / \partial x^2$. One way to ...
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