We describe the spectrum of the k-form Laplacian on conformally cusp Riemannian manifolds. The essential spectrum is shown to vanish precisely when the k and k − 1 de Rham cohomology groups of the boundary vanish. We give Weyl-type asymptotics for the eigenvalue-counting function in the purely discrete case. In the other case we analyze the essential spectrum via positive commutator methods and...

A striking result of Bouc gives the decomposition of the representation of the symmetric group on the homology of the matching complex into irreducibles that are self-conjugate. We show how the combinatorial Laplacian can be used to give an elegant proof of this result. We also show that the spectrum of the Laplacian is integral.

We study spectrum inclusion regions for complex Jacobi matrices that are compact perturbations of the discrete laplacian. The condition sufficient for the lack of discrete spectrum for such matrices is given.

We solve resonance problems with respect to the Fuč́ık spectrum of the p-Laplacian using variational methods.

Approximate consensus is an important building block for distributed systems, used overtly or implicitly in applications as diverse as formation control, sensor fusion, and synchronization. Laplacian-based consensus, the current dominant approach, is extremely accurate and resilient, but converges slowly. Comparing Laplacian-based consensus to exact consensus algorithms, relaxing the requiremen...

We solve resonance problems with respect to the Fuč́ık spectrum of the p-Laplacian using variational methods.

A multicone graph is defined to be join of a clique and a regular graph. A graph $ G $ is cospectral with graph $ H $ if their adjacency matrices have the same eigenvalues. A graph $ G $ is said to be determined by its spectrum or DS for short, if for any graph $ H $ with $ Spec(G)=Spec(H)$, we conclude that $ G $ is isomorphic to $ H $. In this paper, we present new classes of multicone graphs...

We consider an open manifold which is the interior of a compact manifold with boundary. Assuming gauge invariance, we classify magnetic fields with compact support into being trapping or non-trapping. We study spectral properties of the associated magnetic Laplacian for a class of Riemannian metrics which includes complete hyperbolic metrics of finite volume. When B is non-trapping, the magneti...

Consider two graphs G and H. Let H[G] be the lexicographic product of H and G, where H is the lexicographic product of the graph H by itself k times. In this paper, we determine the spectrum of H[G] and H whenG andH are regular and the Laplacian spectrum ofH[G] andH for G and H arbitrary. Particular emphasis is given to the least eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix in the case of lexicographic p...

We consider Laplacian in a planar strip with Dirichlet boundary condition on the upper boundary and with frequent alternation boundary condition on the lower boundary. The alternation is introduced by the periodic partition of the boundary into small segments on which Dirichlet and Neumann conditions are imposed in turns. We show that under the certain condition the homogenized operator is the ...