Asymptotic evaluation of a lattice sum associated with the Laplacian matrix (Q2166132)

This paper studies a double sum \(F_n\) that is associated with the trace of the pseudo inverse of the Laplacian matrix for certain graphs. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is introductory. Section 2 presents an abstract coordinate-free formulation of \(F_n\) which allows the authors to deduce that it is rational for any \(n\). In Section 3 they relate the sum \(F_n\) to sums and integrals obtained by Taylor approximations of the denominator of the summands. Their first main result shows that these sums and integrals all share the same leading term in their asymptotic expansions with that of \(F_n\). For obtaining the next two terms in the asymptotic expansion of \(F_n\), they establish a relation among these sums and integrals, and obtain error estimates that depend on the degree of the Taylor polynomial utilized. They also investigate the asymptotic behavior of the sum of reciprocals of a positive definite binary quadratic form at the lattice points. Then they use this result to derive the asymptotic behavior of the associated sum. They also find the asymptotic behavior of a related integral. Sections 4, 5, and 6 contain proofs of these results. In Section 7, they apply some of these results to two examples coming from Lie theory. Some problems and directions for further research are discussed in Section 8.