Impediments to diffusion in quantum graphs: Geometry-based upper bounds on the spectral gap

DOI10.1090/PROC/16322zbMATH Open1522.81098arXiv2206.10046MaRDI QIDQ6039973FDOQ6039973

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

Publication date: 24 May 2023

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

Abstract: We derive several upper bounds on the spectral gap of the Laplacian with standard or Dirichlet vertex conditions on compact metric graphs. In particular, we obtain estimates based on the length of a shortest cycle (girth), diameter, total length of the graph, as well as further metric quantities introduced here for the first time, such as the avoidance diameter. Using known results about Ramanujan graphs, a class of expander graphs, we also prove that some of these metric quantities, or combinations thereof, do not to deliver any spectral bounds with the correct scaling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10046

zbMATH Keywords

girthquantum graphsspectral geometry of quantum graphsbounds on spectral gaps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Boundary value problems on graphs and networks for ordinary differential equations (34B45) Difference equations, scaling ((q)-differences) (39A13) Spectral operators, decomposable operators, well-bounded operators, etc. (47B40) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

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