Paper introduces magnetic Hodge Laplacian for differential forms.
problem No specific problem stated; general spectral analysis of differential forms.
method Introduced magnetic Hodge Laplacian, discussed spectral results.
result Similarities and differences with magnetic Laplacian on functions.
The graph Laplacian plays key roles in information processing of relational data, and has analogies with the Laplacian in differential geometry. In this paper, we generalize the analogy between graph Laplacian and differential geometry to the hypergraph setting, and propose a novel hypergraph p-Laplacian. Unlike the …
New perspective on G2-structures flow from DeTurck Laplacian.
problem Understanding G2-structures and their flows.
method Introducing a new flow (DeTurck Laplacian flow) for G2-structures.
result DeTurck Laplacian flow is a flow of G2-structures.
This work generalizes a geometric Laplacian determinant description to higher dimensions.
problem Defining and understanding the Laplacian determinant in higher dimensions with non-Delaunay triangulations.
method Geometric description of the Laplacian determinant in higher dimensions, relating it to volume quantities derived from simplex geometry.
result Generalizes geometric Laplacian determinant description to higher dimensions, showing negative semidefiniteness and kernel of constants.
The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, we look at the fractional Laplacian and the conformal fractional Laplacian from the general framework of representation theory on symmetric spaces and, second, we construct new boundary operators with good conformal properties that generalize the fractional Laplacian using an e…
For a bounded domain Ω with a piecewise smooth boundary in an n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn, we study eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. First we give a general inequality for eigenvalues of the Laplacian. As an application, we study lower order eigenvalues of the Lap…
Paper investigates rigidity phenomena for weighted Ricci curvature bounds with Laplacian comparison theorem.
problem Investigating rigidity phenomena for weighted Ricci curvature bounds.
method Derived comparison geometric estimates and generalized for non-symmetric Laplacian.
result Obtained rigidity results for Laplacian comparison theorem, diameter comparisons, and volume comparisons.
Study Hodge Laplacians for manifold data, improving error bounds.
problem Approximating Laplace-Beltrami operator on differential forms.
method Higher-order graph Laplacians (Hodge Laplacians) as approximations.
result High-probability error bound for Dirichlet forms.
Study eigenvalues of p-Laplacian on quaternionic Kähler manifolds.
problem Finding lower bounds for eigenvalues of p-Laplacian on quaternionic Kähler manifolds.
method Analytical proofs for both Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions.
result Established lower bounds for eigenvalues on compact quaternionic Kähler manifolds.
Survey of Laplacian-based methods for data dimensionality reduction and embedding.
problem Efficiently reducing high-dimensional data to lower dimensions while preserving important features and structures.
method Laplacian-based methods including spectral clustering, Laplacian eigenmap, locality preserving projection, graph embedding, and diffusion map.
result Comprehensive overview of various optimization variants and applications of Laplacian-based techniques.
New theory for eigenvectors of generalized Laplacian matrices, addressing dependency issues.
problem Dependency in random matrix theory hinders eigenvector analysis for latent embeddings.
method Introduces generalized Laplacian matrices and a new asymptotic theory framework.
result Established asymptotic normalities for spiked eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
The paper proves new comparison theorems for sub-Laplacian in foliations with minimal leaves.
problem Proving comparison theorems for sub-Laplacian in Riemannian foliations with minimal leaves.
method Using Riemannian foliations with minimal leaves, the paper proves comparison theorems for the sub-Laplacian.
result The comparison theorems yield a Bonnet-Myers type theorem, stochastic completeness, and Lipschitz regularization property for the sub-Riemannian semigroup.
In this paper, we obtain "universal" inequalities for eigenvalues of the weighted Hodge Laplacian on a compact self-shrinker of Euclidean space. These inequalities generalize the Yang-type and Levitin-Parnovski inequalities for eigenvalues of the Laplacian and Laplacian. From the recursion formula of Cheng and Yang \ci…
This paper uses the technology of weighted and regular triangulations to study discrete versions of the Laplacian on piecewise Euclidean manifolds. Regular triangulations are studied in some detail, including flip algorithms. The Laplacian is then studied as an operator on functions of the vertices as a generalized wei…
In this paper, we discuss spectral properties of Laplacians associated with an arbitrary smooth distribution on a compact manifold. First, we give a survey of results on generalized smooth distributions on manifolds, Riemannian structures and associated Laplacians. Then, under the assumption that the singular foliation…
Let M be an n-dimensional closed orientable submanifold in an N-dimensional space form. When 1<p≤2n+1, we obtain an upper bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian in terms of the mean curvature of M and the curvature of the space form. This generalizes the Reilly inequality for …
We study multiplicity of the eigenvalues of the Hodge Laplacian on smooth, compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension five for generic families of metrics. We prove that generically the Hodge Laplacian, restricted to the subspace of co-exact two-forms, has nonzero eigenvalues of multiplicity two. The proof is based on t…
We show that zero is not an eigenvalue of the conformal Laplacian for generic Riemannian metrics. We also discuss non-compactness for sequences of metrics with growing number of negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian.
Extends graph theory to hypergraphs with manifold-valued nodes.
problem Representing complex N-ary relationships on manifolds.
method Defined function spaces and symmetric products for manifold-valued nodes and edges.
result Generalized hypergraph Laplacians to manifold-valued hypergraphs.
New method learns high-quality Laplacian representations for reinforcement learning.
problem Lack of accurate Laplacian representations in large or continuous state spaces.
method Reformulated spectral graph drawing objective to have eigenvectors as unique global minimizer.
result Learned Laplacian representations more faithfully approximate the ground truth.
Maximal Laplacian algebras applied to invariant theory solved inverse problems.
problem Maximality of Laplacian algebras and their applications in invariant theory.
method Proof of maximality and applications to classical invariant theory.
result Introduction of generalized polarizations and if-and-only-if criterion.
A kinematic method selects the deformation Laplacian for fluid dynamics on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Ambiguity in viscous operator choice for Navier-Stokes equations on Riemannian manifolds.
method Kinematic construction of strain rate from Lie-dragged vectors, excluding Hodge Laplacian due to antisymmetric part.
result Kinematic selection uniquely identifies the deformation Laplacian, resolving analytical obstructions.
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 curvature to general weighted graphs and then give a strikingly simple representa…
Study eigenvalues of a generalized p-Laplacian on forms.
problem Estimating the first nonzero eigenvalue of a weighted p-Laplacian.
method Introduced a weighted p-Laplace operator for differential forms and derived sharp lower bounds.
result Extended and improved eigenvalue estimates for the p-Laplacian.
We generalize the results of Montgomery for the Bochner Laplacian on high tensor powers of a line bundle. When specialized to Riemann surfaces, this leads to the Bergman kernel expansion and geometric quantization results for semi-positive line bundles whose curvature vanishes at finite order. The proof exploits the re…
Existing approaches to analyzing the asymptotics of graph Laplacians typically assume a well-behaved kernel function with smoothness assumptions. We remove the smoothness assumption and generalize the analysis of graph Laplacians to include previously unstudied graphs including kNN graphs. We also introduce a kernel-fr…
Study eigenvalues of p-Laplacian on Kähler manifolds, proving lower bounds.
problem Eigenvalue problem for the p-Laplacian on Kähler manifolds.
method Lower bounds derived using dimension, diameter, curvature bounds.
result Sharp lower bounds for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian.
Develops trace class operators and inverse Laplacian theory for infinite dimensions.
problem Understanding trace class operators and inverse Laplacian on infinite dimensional spaces.
method Presentation of trace class operators and construction of inverse Laplacian on closed manifolds.
result Original trace computations involving the inverse Laplacian on the torus.
The paper compares three hypoelliptic Laplacians on a specific 5D Cartan group.
problem Defining suitable hypoelliptic Laplacians for sharp estimates on Carnot groups.
method Introducing and comparing three hypoelliptic Laplacians on a specific Carnot group.
result Sharp div-curl type inequalities for the three hypoelliptic Laplacians.
We establish a uniform comparison between the spectrum of the rough Laplacian (acting on sections of a vector bundle of complex rank one or of harmonic curvature) with the spectrum of a discrete operator (a generalization of a discrete magnetic Laplacian added with a potential) acting on a finite dimensional space comi…
Study spectral settings of generalized Laplacians on homogeneous spaces.
problem Understanding the spectral properties of generalized Laplacians on compact homogeneous spaces.
method Investigates the generic spectral configuration of operators on G-invariant metrics on M=G/K. result The spectral setting depends on G-isometries and hidden symmetries. Rough and Hodge Laplacians eigenvalues approach zero with fixed volume.
problem Eigenvalues of rough and Hodge Laplacians under fixed volume.
method Construct families of Riemannian metrics with fixed volume.
result Positive eigenvalues of rough and Hodge Laplacians converge to zero.
We define a CR structure on a distinguished hyperplane in Cn+1 and the CR sub-Laplacian on this CR manifold. We also define symmetries of the CR sub-Laplacian in general and for this special case construct all of them using the ambient construction. Then we investigate the algebra structure of the symmetr…
Paper discusses solving generalized Hessian inequalities with various operators.
problem Finding global solutions to generalized Hessian inequalities.
method Analyzes various Hessian operators and provides conditions for global solvability.
result Provides necessary and sufficient conditions for global solvability of generalized Hessian inequalities.
Paper learns Cartesian product graphs with Laplacian constraints.
problem Learning Cartesian product graphs from Laplacian constraints.
method Penalized maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and efficient algorithm.
result Statistical consistency for Cartesian product Laplacian estimation.
Generalizes Cheeger inequality to Carnot-Carathéodory spaces.
problem Lower bounds on eigenvalues of Laplacians in complex spaces.
method Geometric approach, including Neumann and mixed boundary conditions.
result Concrete method to lower bound Cheeger constant.
Paper proves convergence of bi-stochastically normalized graph Laplacian to manifold Laplacian and robustness to outlier noise.
problem Convergence of bi-stochastically normalized graph Laplacian to manifold Laplacian and robustness to outlier noise.
method Proves convergence of bi-stochastically normalized graph Laplacian to manifold Laplacian with rates, and proposes an approximate and constrained matrix scaling problem to achieve the same consistency rate.
result Graph Laplacian consistency rate matches the rate for clean manifold data plus an additional term proportional to the boundedness of the inner-products of the noise vectors.
Defines vector Laplacian on statistical manifolds.
problem No specific problem stated; focuses on mathematical definition.
method Defines and derives vector Laplacian formula.
result Derives formula for vector Laplacian.
In this paper we study eigenvalues of the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian on an n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Estimates for eigenvalues are given. As applications, we give a sharp upper bound for the kth eigenvalue and for isoparametric minimal hypersurfaces in the unit sphe…
The aim of the present article is to give an overview of spectral theory on metric graphs guided by spectral geometry on discrete graphs and manifolds. We present the basic concept of metric graphs and natural Laplacians acting on it and explicitly allow infinite graphs. Motivated by the general form of a Laplacian on …
New random feature maps for Laplacian and related kernels.
problem Challenges in approximating the Laplacian kernel and its generalizations.
method Developed random feature maps for Laplacian and related kernels, providing efficient sampling schemes.
result Demonstrated the efficacy of these random feature maps on real datasets.
Proves spectral simplicity of Hodge Laplacian and curl operator along metric families.
problem Simplicity of Hodge Laplacian and curl operator eigenvalues along metric families.
method Generalized Teytel's method to compute meagre codimension of metrics with specific eigenvalue multiplicities.
result Simplicity of Hodge Laplacian and curl operator is not a meagre codimension 2 property.
A new graph generator uses heat diffusion on graph Laplacians to create new graph structures.
problem Creating realistic and diverse graph structures for various applications.
method Adapting the Generator Matching paradigm to graph data, using graph Laplacian and heat kernel for diffusion.
result The method effectively generates graphs with structural properties of real and synthetic graphs.
In this paper, we study monotonicity of eigenvalues of Laplacian-type operator −Δ+cR, where c is a constant, along the Ricci-Bourguignon flow. For c=0, We derive monotonicity of the lowest eigenvalue of Laplacian-type operator −Δ+cR which generalizes some results of Cao \cite{Cao2007}. For c=0, We derive m…
BIG Laplacians bridge combinatorial and Hodge Laplacians for discrete data.
problem Comparing combinatorial and Hodge Laplacians for discrete data.
method Introducing Boundary-Induced Graph (BIG) Laplacians using DEC.
result BIG Laplacian eigenvalues converge to Hodge Laplacian for simple shapes.
The paper classifies solutions to a Liouville equation on a half-space with a specific boundary condition.
problem Classifying solutions to a Liouville equation with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition.
method Analyzing the n-Laplacian Liouville equation on the half-space R+n with positive nonlinear Neumann boundary condition. result The classification of solutions extends previous results for n=2 and p=n. We study ancient solutions of polynomial growth to both continuous-time and discrete-time heat equations on graphs with unbounded Laplacians. We generalize Colding and Minicozzi's theorem [CM19] on manifolds, and the result [Hua19] on graphs with normalized Laplacians to the setting of graphs with unbounded Laplacians:…
Study resolvents of Bochner Laplacians on compact manifolds.
problem Analyzing the resolvents of Bochner Laplacians in the semiclassical limit.
method Introducing Heisenberg semiclassical pseudodifferential operators to study sections of line bundles.
result Resolvents and spectral projections of Bochner Laplacians are studied in the large power limit.