The space of circular planar electrical networks

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DOI10.1137/140997798zbMATH Open1357.90022arXiv1411.7425OpenAlexW2962986186MaRDI QIDQ2953403FDOQ2953403


Authors: Richard Kenyon, David B. Wilson Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 January 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss several parametrizations of the space of circular planar electrical networks. For any circular planar network we associate a canonical minimal network with the same response matrix, called a "standard" network. The conductances of edges in a standard network can be computed as a biratio of Pfaffians constructed from the response matrix. The conductances serve as coordinates that are compatible with the cell structure of circular planar networks in the sense that one conductance degenerates to 0 or infinity when moving from a cell to a boundary cell. We also show how to test if a network with n nodes is well-connected by checking that minors of the nimesn response matrix are positive; Colin de Verdi`ere had previously shown that it was sufficient to check the positivity of exponentially many minors. For standard networks with m edges, positivity of the conductances can be tested by checking the positivity of m+1 Pfaffians.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7425




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