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# Computer Science > Discrete Mathematics

# Title: Calculus on Graphs

Authors: [Joel Friedman][32], [Jean-Pierre Tillich][33]

(Submitted on 12 Aug 2004)

> Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to develop a "calculus" on graphs that allows graph theory to have new connections to analysis. For example, our framework gives rise to many new partial differential equations on graphs, most notably a new (Laplacian based) wave equation; this wave equation gives rise to a partial improvement on the Chung-Faber-Manteuffel diameter/eigenvalue bound in graph theory, and the Chung-Grigoryan-Yau and (in a certain case) Bobkov-Ledoux distance/eigenvalue bounds in analysis. Our framework also allows most techniques for the non-linear p-Laplacian in analysis to be easily carried over to graph theory. 

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|  Subjects:  |  Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM); Combinatorics (math.CO) |  
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