Approximations of Laplace-Beltrami operators on manifolds through graph Laplacians have become popular tools in data analysis and machine learning. These discretized operators usually depend on bandwidth parameters whose tuning remains a theoretical and practical problem. In this paper, we address this problem for the unnormalized graph Laplacian by establishing an oracle inequality that opens ...

This is an expository article on the question of whether zero lies in the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator acting on differential forms on a manifold.

The Laplace–Beltrami operator (LBO) is the fundamental geometric object associated with manifold surfaces and has been widely used in various tasks in geometric processing. By understanding that the LBO can be computed by differential quantities, we propose an approach for discretizing the LBO on manifolds by estimating differential quantities. For a point on the manifold, we first fit a quadra...

Many problems in image analysis, digital processing and shape optimization can be expressed as variational problems involving the discretization of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Such discretizations have have been widely studied for meshes or polyhedral surfaces. On digital surfaces, direct applications of classical operators are usually not satisfactory (lack of multigrid convergence, lack of...

Chebyshev polynomials of the first and the second kind in n variables z. , Zt , ... , z„ are introduced. The variables z, , z-,..... z„ are the characters of the representations of SL(n + 1, C) corresponding to the fundamental weights. The Chebyshev polynomials are eigenpolynomials of a second order linear partial differential operator which is in fact the radial part of the Laplace-Beltrami op...

The existence of the Laplace-Beltrami operator has allowed mathematicians to carry out Fourier analysis on Riemannian manifolds [2]. We recall that the Laplace-Beltrami operator ∆ on a compact Riemannian manifold has a discrete set of eigenvalues {λj}j=1, which satisfies λj →∞ as j →∞. This is known as the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Inverse spectral geometry studies how much of ...

The Laplace-Beltrami operator of a smooth Riemannian manifold is determined by the Riemannian metric. Conversely, the heat kernel constructed from its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions determines the Riemannian metric. This work proves the analogy on Euclidean polyhedral surfaces (triangle meshes), that the discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator and the discrete Riemannian metric (unique up to a scali...