Singularity of Hermitian (quasi-)Laplacian matrix of mixed graphs

2017 ◽  
Vol 293 ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guihai Yu ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Hui Qu
10.37236/9638 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Hu ◽  
Hajo Broersma ◽  
Jiangyou Hou ◽  
Shenggui Zhang

A mixed graph is a graph that can be obtained from a simple undirected graph by replacing some of the edges by arcs in precisely one of the two possible directions. The Hermitian adjacency matrix of a mixed graph $G$ of order $n$ is the $n \times n$ matrix $H(G)=(h_{ij})$, where $h_{ij}=-h_{ji}= \boldsymbol{\mathrm{i}}$ (with $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{i}} =\sqrt{-1})$ if there exists an arc from $v_i$ to $v_j$ (but no arc from $v_j$ to $v_i$), $h_{ij}=h_{ji}=1$ if there exists an edge (and no arcs) between $v_i$ and $v_j$, and $h_{ij}= 0$ otherwise (if $v_i$ and $v_j$ are neither joined by an edge nor by an arc). We study the spectra of the Hermitian adjacency matrix and the normalized Hermitian Laplacian matrix of general random mixed graphs, i.e., in which all arcs are chosen independently with different probabilities (and an edge is regarded as two oppositely oriented arcs joining the same pair of vertices). For our first main result, we derive a new probability inequality and apply it to obtain an upper bound on the eigenvalues of the Hermitian adjacency matrix. Our second main result shows that the eigenvalues of the normalized Hermitian Laplacian matrix can be approximated by the eigenvalues of a closely related weighted expectation matrix, with error bounds depending on the minimum expected degree of the underlying undirected graph.


Author(s):  
Dariush Kiani ◽  
Maryam Mirzakhah

Let G be a mixed graph and L(G) be the Laplacian matrix of G. In this paper, the coefficients of the Laplacian characteristic polynomial of G are studied. The first derivative of the characteristic polynomial of L(G) is explicitly expressed by means of Laplacian characteristic polynomials of its edge deleted subgraphs. As a consequence, it is shown that the Laplacian characteristic polynomial of a mixed graph is reconstructible from the collection of the Laplacian characteristic polynomials of its edge deleted subgraphs. Then, it is investigated how graph modifications affect the mixed Laplacian characteristic polynomial. Also, a connection between the Laplacian characteristic polynomial of a non-singular connected mixed graph and the signless Laplacian characteristic polynomial is provided, and it is used to establish a lower bound for the spectral radius of L(G). Finally, using Coates digraphs, the perturbation of the mixed Laplacian spectral radius under some graph transformations is discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruaridh A. Clark ◽  
Malcolm Macdonald

AbstractContact networks provide insights on disease spread due to the duration of close proximity interactions. For systems governed by consensus dynamics, network structure is key to optimising the spread of information. For disease spread over contact networks, the structure would be expected to be similarly influential. However, metrics that are essentially agnostic to the network’s structure, such as weighted degree (strength) centrality and its variants, perform near-optimally in selecting effective spreaders. These degree-based metrics outperform eigenvector centrality, despite disease spread over a network being a random walk process. This paper improves eigenvector-based spreader selection by introducing the non-linear relationship between contact time and the probability of disease transmission into the assessment of network dynamics. This approximation of disease spread dynamics is achieved by altering the Laplacian matrix, which in turn highlights why nodes with a high degree are such influential disease spreaders. From this approach, a trichotomy emerges on the definition of an effective spreader where, for susceptible-infected simulations, eigenvector-based selections can either optimise the initial rate of infection, the average rate of infection, or produce the fastest time to full infection of the network. Simulated and real-world human contact networks are examined, with insights also drawn on the effective adaptation of ant colony contact networks to reduce pathogen spread and protect the queen ant.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Bin Liu ◽  
Shujun Liu ◽  
Guanning Shang ◽  
Yanjie Chen ◽  
Qifeng Wang ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND: There is a great demand for the extraction of organ models from three-dimensional (3D) medical images in clinical medicine diagnosis and treatment. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to aid doctors in seeing the real shape of human organs more clearly and vividly. METHODS: The method uses the minimum eigenvectors of Laplacian matrix to automatically calculate a group of basic matting components that can properly define the volume image. These matting components can then be used to build foreground images with the help of a few user marks. RESULTS: We propose a direct 3D model segmentation method for volume images. This is a process of extracting foreground objects from volume images and estimating the opacity of the voxels covered by the objects. CONCLUSIONS: The results of segmentation experiments on different parts of human body prove the applicability of this method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Carolyn Reinhart

Abstract The distance matrix 𝒟(G) of a connected graph G is the matrix containing the pairwise distances between vertices. The transmission of a vertex vi in G is the sum of the distances from vi to all other vertices and T(G) is the diagonal matrix of transmissions of the vertices of the graph. The normalized distance Laplacian, 𝒟𝒧(G) = I−T(G)−1/2 𝒟(G)T(G)−1/2, is introduced. This is analogous to the normalized Laplacian matrix, 𝒧(G) = I − D(G)−1/2 A(G)D(G)−1/2, where D(G) is the diagonal matrix of degrees of the vertices of the graph and A(G) is the adjacency matrix. Bounds on the spectral radius of 𝒟 𝒧 and connections with the normalized Laplacian matrix are presented. Twin vertices are used to determine eigenvalues of the normalized distance Laplacian. The distance generalized characteristic polynomial is defined and its properties established. Finally, 𝒟𝒧-cospectrality and lack thereof are determined for all graphs on 10 and fewer vertices, providing evidence that the normalized distance Laplacian has fewer cospectral pairs than other matrices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1490-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Bao Liu ◽  
Muhammad Javaid ◽  
Mohsin Raza ◽  
Naeem Saleem

Abstract The second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a graph (network) is called its algebraic connectivity which is used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, distinguish the group differences, measure the robustness, construct multiplex model, synchronize the stability, analyze the diffusion processes and find the connectivity of the graphs (networks). A connected graph containing two or three cycles is called a bicyclic graph if its number of edges is equal to its number of vertices plus one. In this paper, firstly the unique graph with a minimum algebraic connectivity is characterized in the class of connected graphs whose complements are bicyclic with exactly three cycles. Then, we find the unique graph of minimum algebraic connectivity in the class of connected graphs $\begin{array}{} {\it\Omega}^c_{n}={\it\Omega}^c_{1,n}\cup{\it\Omega}^c_{2,n}, \end{array}$ where $\begin{array}{} {\it\Omega}^c_{1,n} \end{array}$ and $\begin{array}{} {\it\Omega}^c_{2,n} \end{array}$ are classes of the connected graphs in which the complement of each graph of order n is a bicyclic graph with exactly two and three cycles, respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 4497
Author(s):  
Dongming Chen ◽  
Mingshuo Nie ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Yun Kong ◽  
Dongqi Wang ◽  
...  

Aiming at analyzing the temporal structures in evolutionary networks, we propose a community detection algorithm based on graph representation learning. The proposed algorithm employs a Laplacian matrix to obtain the node relationship information of the directly connected edges of the network structure at the previous time slice, the deep sparse autoencoder learns to represent the network structure under the current time slice, and the K-means clustering algorithm is used to partition the low-dimensional feature matrix of the network structure under the current time slice into communities. Experiments on three real datasets show that the proposed algorithm outperformed the baselines regarding effectiveness and feasibility.


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