It is proved that the Green’s function of the simple random walk on a surface group of large genus decays exponentially in distance at the (inverse) spectral radius. It is also shown that Ancona’s inequalities extend to the spectral radius R, and therefore that the Martin boundary for R−potentials coincides with the natural geometric boundary S. This implies that the Green’s function obeys a po...

We study the spectral radius of graphs with n vertices and k cut edges. In this paper, we show that of all the connected graphs with n vertices and k cut edges, the maximal spectral radius is obtained uniquely at Kk n , where K k n is a graph obtained by joining k independent vertices to one vertex of Kn−k . We also discuss the limit point of the maximal spectral radius. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. Al...

We introduce a new spectral method for the retrieval of optical thickness and effective radius from cloud transmittance that relies on the spectral slope of the normalized transmittance between 1565 nm and 1634 nm, and on cloud transmittance at a visible wavelength. The standard dual-wavelength technique, which is traditionally used in reflectance-based retrievals, is ill-suited for transmittan...

a disk wang-bézier type generalized ball curve is a wang-bézier type generalized ball curve whose control points are disks in a plane. it can be viewed as a parametric curve with error tolerances. in this paper, we discuss the problem of degree reduction of disk wang-bézier type generalized ball curve, that is, bounding disk wang-bézier type generalized ball curves with lower degree disk wang-b...

Let S = {S 1, S 2} ⊂ Rd×d have a common, but not necessarily strict, Lyapunov matrix (i.e. there exists a symmetric positive-definite matrix P such that P − S T k PS k ≥ 0 for k = 1, 2). Based on a splitting theorem of the state space Rd (Dai, Huang and Xiao, arXiv:1107.0132v1[math.PR]), we establish several stability criteria for the discrete-time linear switched dynamics xn = S σn · · · S σ1 ...

The spectral radius of the adjacency matrix can impact both algorithmic efficiency as well as the stability of solutions to an underlying dynamical process. Although much research has considered the distribution of the spectral radius for undirected random graph models, as symmetric adjacency matrices are amenable to spectral analysis, very little work has focused on directed graphs. Consequent...

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy can be used for detailed spatial and spectral characterization of optical excitations in metal nanoparticles. In previous electron energy-loss experiments on silver nanoparticles with radii smaller than 20 nm, only the dipolar surface plasmon resonance was assumed to play a role. Here, applying electron energy-loss spectroscopy to individual silver nanoparticle...