Bakry-Émery curvature on graphs as an eigenvalue problem

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-02179-ZzbMATH Open1484.05125OpenAlexW4210526540WikidataQ114017992 ScholiaQ114017992MaRDI QIDQ2113313FDOQ2113313

Authors David Cushing, Supanat Kamtue, Shiping Liu, Norbert Peyerimhoff 

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08687

zbMATH Keywords

Schur complementcurvature matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Signed and weighted graphs (05C22) Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.) (05C76) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: In this paper, we reformulate the Bakry-'Emery curvature on a weighted graph in terms of the smallest eigenvalue of a rank one perturbation of the so-called curvature matrix using Schur complement. This new viewpoint allows us to show various curvature function properties in a very conceptual way. We show that the curvature, as a function of the dimension parameter, is analytic, strictly monotone increasing and strictly concave until a certain threshold after which the function is constant. Furthermore, we derive the curvature of the Cartesian product using the crucial observation that the curvature matrix of the product is the direct sum of each component. Our approach of the curvature functions of graphs can be employed to establish analogous results for the curvature functions of weighted Riemannian manifolds. Moreover, as an application, we confirm a conjecture (in a general weighted case) of the fact that the curvature does not decrease under certain graph modifications.

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