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Main Authors: Dautenhahn, Emily, Saloff-Coste, Laurent
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19256
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author Dautenhahn, Emily
Saloff-Coste, Laurent
author_facet Dautenhahn, Emily
Saloff-Coste, Laurent
contents Faber-Krahn functions provide lower bounds on the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian and are useful because they imply heat kernel upper bounds. In this paper, we are interested in Faber-Krahn functions and heat kernel estimates for a certain class of graphs consisting of "sufficiently nice pages" (satisfying a Harnack inequality) glued together via a "sufficiently nice spine." For such graphs, we obtain a relative Faber-Krahn function in terms of the Faber-Krahn functions on the pages. The corresponding heat kernel upper bound involves the volumes on the various pages. In the case our graphs satisfy a property we call "book-like" and the spine is appropriately transient, we provide a matching lower bound for the heat kernel between two points on the gluing spine.
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spellingShingle Faber-Krahn inequality and heat kernel estimates on glued graphs
Dautenhahn, Emily
Saloff-Coste, Laurent
Probability
60J10 (Primary), 60G50, 35K08
Faber-Krahn functions provide lower bounds on the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian and are useful because they imply heat kernel upper bounds. In this paper, we are interested in Faber-Krahn functions and heat kernel estimates for a certain class of graphs consisting of "sufficiently nice pages" (satisfying a Harnack inequality) glued together via a "sufficiently nice spine." For such graphs, we obtain a relative Faber-Krahn function in terms of the Faber-Krahn functions on the pages. The corresponding heat kernel upper bound involves the volumes on the various pages. In the case our graphs satisfy a property we call "book-like" and the spine is appropriately transient, we provide a matching lower bound for the heat kernel between two points on the gluing spine.
title Faber-Krahn inequality and heat kernel estimates on glued graphs
topic Probability
60J10 (Primary), 60G50, 35K08
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19256