A Tight Bound on Localization of Electrical Flows

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Hauptverfasser: Gurel-Gurevich, Ori, Nachmias, Asaf, Sachdeva, Sushant
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author Gurel-Gurevich, Ori
Nachmias, Asaf
Sachdeva, Sushant
author_facet Gurel-Gurevich, Ori
Nachmias, Asaf
Sachdeva, Sushant
contents We prove that for any unweighted graph on n vertices the L1 norm of a unit electric current between the endpoints of a random edge is at most 2 log n. Furthermore, we show that on any weighted graph the spectral norm of the entry-wise absolute value of the symmetric transfer-current matrix is at most 2 log n. This bound is tight up to constants and improves the O(log^2 n) bound from [Schild-Rao-Srivastava, SODA '18]. The initial proofs were generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 Pro; the authors have verified and rewritten them to enhance readability and provide additional context.
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spellingShingle A Tight Bound on Localization of Electrical Flows
Gurel-Gurevich, Ori
Nachmias, Asaf
Sachdeva, Sushant
Data Structures and Algorithms
Discrete Mathematics
Probability
We prove that for any unweighted graph on n vertices the L1 norm of a unit electric current between the endpoints of a random edge is at most 2 log n. Furthermore, we show that on any weighted graph the spectral norm of the entry-wise absolute value of the symmetric transfer-current matrix is at most 2 log n. This bound is tight up to constants and improves the O(log^2 n) bound from [Schild-Rao-Srivastava, SODA '18]. The initial proofs were generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 Pro; the authors have verified and rewritten them to enhance readability and provide additional context.
title A Tight Bound on Localization of Electrical Flows
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Discrete Mathematics
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24130