Conformally covariant operators and conformal invariants on weighted graphs

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-0021-0MaRDI QIDQ2256269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitry Jakobson, Matthew Stevenson, Mashbat Suzuki, Thomas C. Ng

Publication date 19 February 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5690

zbMATH Keywords

kerneladjacency matrixmoduli spacenodal setsignatureincidence matrixweighted graphconformal invariantconformal structureconformally covariant operatoredge Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Signed and weighted graphs (05C22) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: Let G be a finite connected simple graph. We define the moduli space of conformal structures on G. We propose a definition of conformally covariant operators on graphs, motivated by [25]. We provide examples of conformally covariant operators, which include the edge Laplacian and the adjacency matrix on graphs. In the case where such an operator has a nontrivial kernel, we construct conformal invariants, providing discrete counterparts of several results in [11,12] established for Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we show that the nodal sets and nodal domains of null eigenvectors are conformal invariants.

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