Surgery principles for the spectral analysis of quantum graphs

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DOI10.1090/TRAN/7864zbMATH Open1451.34029arXiv1807.08183OpenAlexW3100247963WikidataQ128060235 ScholiaQ128060235MaRDI QIDQ5234516FDOQ5234516

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

Publication date: 26 September 2019

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

Abstract: We present a systematic collection of spectral surgery principles for the Laplacian on a metric graph with any of the usual vertex conditions (natural, Dirichlet or delta-type), which show how various types of changes of a local or localised nature to a graph impact the spectrum of the Laplacian. Many of these principles are entirely new, these include "transplantation" of volume within a graph based on the behaviour of its eigenfunctions, as well as "unfolding" of local cycles and pendants. In other cases we establish sharp generalisations, extensions and refinements of known eigenvalue inequalities resulting from graph modification, such as vertex gluing, adjustment of vertex conditions and introducing new pendant subgraphs. To illustrate our techniques we derive a new eigenvalue estimate which uses the size of the doubly connected part of a metric graph to estimate the spectral gap. This quantitative isoperimetric-type inequality interpolates between two known estimates---one assuming the entire graph is doubly connected and the other making no connectivity assumption (and producing a weaker bound)---and includes them as special cases.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08183




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