A graph theoretical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem
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چکیده
We prove a discrete Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem ∑ g∈V K(g) = χ(G) for finite graphs G = (V,E), where V is the vertex set and E is the edge set of the graph. The dimension of the graph, the local curvature form K and the Euler characteristic are all defined graph theoretically.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1111.5395 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011