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Bakry–Émery Curvature Functions on Graphs

Part of: Classical differential geometry Discrete geometry Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2019

David Cushing ,
Shiping Liu  and
Norbert Peyerimhoff
David Cushing
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom e-mail: [email protected]@durham.ac.uk
Shiping Liu
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China e-mail: [email protected]
Norbert Peyerimhoff
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom e-mail: [email protected]@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We study local properties of the Bakry–Émery curvature function ${\mathcal{K}}_{G,x}:(0,\infty ]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ at a vertex $x$ of a graph $G$ systematically. Here ${\mathcal{K}}_{G,x}({\mathcal{N}})$ is defined as the optimal curvature lower bound ${\mathcal{K}}$ in the Bakry–Émery curvature-dimension inequality $CD({\mathcal{K}},{\mathcal{N}})$ that $x$ satisfies. We provide upper and lower bounds for the curvature functions, introduce fundamental concepts like curvature sharpness and $S^{1}$-out regularity, and relate the curvature functions of $G$ with various spectral properties of (weighted) graphs constructed from local structures of $G$. We prove that the curvature functions of the Cartesian product of two graphs $G_{1},G_{2}$ are equal to an abstract product of curvature functions of $G_{1},G_{2}$. We explore the curvature functions of Cayley graphs and many particular (families of) examples. We present various conjectures and construct an infinite increasing family of 6-regular graphs which satisfy $CD(0,\infty )$ but are not Cayley graphs.

Keywords

Bakry–Emery curvaturecurvature-dimension inequalityCayley graphCartesian product

MSC classification

Primary: 05C50: Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.)
Secondary: 52C99: None of the above, but in this section 53A40: Other special differential geometries
Type
Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 89 - 143
Copyright
© Canadian Mathematical Society 2018 

Footnotes

This work was supported by the EPSRC Grant EP/K016687/1 “Topology, Geometry and Laplacians of Simplicial Complexes”.

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