A new derivation is given of Branson’s factorization formula for the conformally invariant operator on the sphere whose principal part is the k-th power of the scalar Laplacian. The derivation deduces Branson’s formula from knowledge of the corresponding conformally invariant operator on Euclidean space (the k-th power of the Euclidean Laplacian) via conjugation by the stereographic projection ...

We study the low energy asymptotics of periodic and random Laplace operators on Cayley graphs of amenable, finitely generated groups. For the periodic operator the asymptotics is characterised by the van Hove exponent or zeroth Novikov-Shubin invariant. The random model we consider is given in terms of an adjacency Laplacian on site or edge percolation subgraphs of the Cayley graph. The asympto...

CR invariant differential operators on densities with leading part a power of the sub-Laplacian are derived. One family of such operators is constructed from the " conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian " via the Fefferman metric; the powers which arise for these operators are bounded in terms of the dimension. A second family is derived from a CR tractor calculus which is developed here...

Let $S(G)$ be the Seidel matrix of a graph $G$ of order $n$ and let $D_S(G)=diag(n-1-2d_1, n-1-2d_2,ldots, n-1-2d_n)$ be the diagonal matrix with $d_i$ denoting the degree of a vertex $v_i$ in $G$. The Seidel Laplacian matrix of $G$ is defined as $SL(G)=D_S(G)-S(G)$ and the Seidel signless Laplacian matrix as $SL^+(G)=D_S(G)+S(G)$. The Seidel signless Laplacian energy $E_{SL^+...

where n is the number of vertices of the graph G, and λ1,λ2, . . .,λn are its eigenvalues [1, 4, 5]. Two elementary properties of the graph energy are E(G1 ∪G2) = E(G1) + E(G2) for G1 ∪G2 being the graph consisting of two disconnected components G1 and G2, and E(G∪K1) = E(G), where K1 is the graph with a single vertex. Motivated by the success of the graph-energy concept, and in order to extend...

‎We consider the oscillator group equipped with‎ ‎a biinvariant Lorentzian metric‎. ‎Some geometrical properties of this space and the harmonicity properties of left-invariant vector fields on this space are determined‎. ‎In some cases‎, ‎all these vector fields are critical points for the energy functional‎ ‎restricted to vector fields‎. ‎Left-invariant vector fields defining harmonic maps are...

Copyright q 2012 X. Pai and S. Liu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Let Φ G, λ det λIn − L G ∑n k 0 −1 ck G λn−k be the characteristic polynomial of the Laplacian matrix of a graph G of order n. In this paper, we g...

We introduce a one-parameter family of massive Laplacian operators (∆)k∈[0,1) defined on isoradial graphs, involving elliptic functions. We prove an explicit formula for minus the inverse of ∆, the massive Green function, which has the remarkable property of only depending on the local geometry of the graph, and compute its asymptotics. We study the corresponding statistical mechanics model of ...