Discrete Bakry-\'Emery curvature tensors and matrices of connection graphs

arXiv2209.10762MaRDI QIDQ6411540FDOQ6411540

Authors: Chunyang Hu, Shiping Liu 

Publication date: 21 September 2022

Abstract: Connection graphs are natural extensions of Harary's signed graphs. The Bakry-'Emery curvature of connection graphs has been introduced by Liu, M"unch and Peyerimhoff in order to establish Buser type eigenvalue estimates for connection Laplacians. In this paper, we reformulate the Bakry-'Emery curvature of a vertex in a connection graph in terms of the smallest eigenvalue of a family of unitarily equivalent curvature matrices. We further interpret this family of curvature matrices as the matrix representations of a new defined curvature tensor with respect to different orthonormal basis of the tangent space at a vertex. This is a strong extension of previous works of Cushing-Kamtue-Liu-Peyerimhoff and Siconolfi on curvature matrices of graphs. Moreover, we study the Bakry-'Emery curvature of Cartesian products of connection graphs, strengthening the previous result of Liu, M"unch and Peyerimhoff. While results of a vertex with locally balanced structure cover previous works, various interesting phenomena of locally unbalanced connection structure have been clarified.

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