Impediments to diffusion in quantum graphs: Geometry-based upper bounds on the spectral gap

DOI10.1090/PROC/16322MaRDI QIDQ6039973zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gregory Berkolaiko, James Bernard Kennedy, Pavel Kurasov, Delio Mugnolo

Publication date 24 May 2023

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10046

zbMATH Keywords

bounds on spectral gapsgirthquantum graphsspectral geometry of quantum graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Boundary value problems on graphs and networks for ordinary differential equations (34B45) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Difference equations, scaling ((q)-differences) (39A13) Spectral operators, decomposable operators, well-bounded operators, etc. (47B40) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

Abstract: We derive several upper bounds on the spectral gap of the Laplacian with standard or Dirichlet vertex conditions on compact metric graphs. In particular, we obtain estimates based on the length of a shortest cycle (girth), diameter, total length of the graph, as well as further metric quantities introduced here for the first time, such as the avoidance diameter. Using known results about Ramanujan graphs, a class of expander graphs, we also prove that some of these metric quantities, or combinations thereof, do not to deliver any spectral bounds with the correct scaling.

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