Spectral convergence of the discrete Laplacian on models of a metrized graph

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Authors X. W. C. Faber

Publication date 21 November 2006

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502347, https://eudml.org/doc/127289, http://nyjm.albany.edu:8000/j/2006/12-6nf.htm

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zbMATH Keywords

discrete Laplacianeigenvaluesmetrized graphspectral graph theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues, asymptotic theory of eigenfunctions for ordinary differential operators (34L20) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05)

Abstract: A metrized graph is a compact singular 1-manifold endowed with a metric. A given metrized graph can be modelled by a family of weighted combinatorial graphs. If one chooses a sequence of models from this family such that the vertices become uniformly distributed on the metrized graph, then the i-th largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrices of these combinatorial graphs converges to the i-th largest eigenvalue of the continuous Laplacian operator on the metrized graph upon suitable scaling. The eigenvectors of these matrices can be viewed as functions on the metrized graph by linear interpolation. These interpolated functions form a normal family, any convergent subsequence of which limits to an eigenfunction of the continuous Laplacian operator on the metrized graph.

Review text

A metrized graph can be modeled by a family of weighted combinatorial graphs where a number of points on the metrized graph are designated as vertices. On each of these models, one has a Laplacian matrix acting on functions defined on the vertices, while on the metrized graph there is a measure-valued Laplacian operator. The author proves in this paper that the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the combinatorial weighted Laplacian matrix on the model converge, when suitably scaled, to the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian operator on the metrized graph.

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