TY - GEN
T1 - Eigenvectors of random graphs
T2 - 10th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2007 and 11th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2007
AU - Dekel, Yael
AU - Lee, James R.
AU - Linial, Nathan
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We initiate a systematic study of eigenvectors of random graphs. Whereas much is known about eigenvalues of graphs and how they reflect properties of the underlying graph, relatively little is known about the corresponding eigenvectors. Our main focus in this paper is on the nodal domains associated with the different eigenfunctions. In the analogous realm of Laplacians of Riemannian manifolds, nodal domains have been the subject of intensive research for well over a hundred years. Graphical nodal domains turn out to have interesting and unexpected properties. Our main theorem asserts that there is a constant c such that for almost every graph G, each eigenfunction of G has at most 2 nodal domains, together with at most c exceptional vertices falling outside these primary domains. We also discuss variations of these questions and briefly report on some numerical experiments which, in particular, suggest that there are almost surely no exceptional vertices.
AB - We initiate a systematic study of eigenvectors of random graphs. Whereas much is known about eigenvalues of graphs and how they reflect properties of the underlying graph, relatively little is known about the corresponding eigenvectors. Our main focus in this paper is on the nodal domains associated with the different eigenfunctions. In the analogous realm of Laplacians of Riemannian manifolds, nodal domains have been the subject of intensive research for well over a hundred years. Graphical nodal domains turn out to have interesting and unexpected properties. Our main theorem asserts that there is a constant c such that for almost every graph G, each eigenfunction of G has at most 2 nodal domains, together with at most c exceptional vertices falling outside these primary domains. We also discuss variations of these questions and briefly report on some numerical experiments which, in particular, suggest that there are almost surely no exceptional vertices.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-74208-1_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-74208-1_32
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AN - SCOPUS:38049037486
SN - 9783540742074
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 436
EP - 448
BT - Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 20 August 2007 through 22 August 2007
ER -