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Graphon as a Bridge between Graphs and Manifolds

Jul 2026 · 1 citation · 36 references
Mathematics

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It is shown that there exist graphons that interpolate between Riemannian manifolds and weighted geometric graphs, and a monotonicity inequality is established which reveals an implicit relationship between numerous combinatorial parameters and geometric quantities on graphons.

Abstract

We show that there exist graphons that interpolate between Riemannian manifolds and weighted geometric graphs. Specifically, the graph-to-manifold approximation used in manifold learning can be regarded as the composition of a graph-to-graphon convergence and a graphon-to-manifold convergence in a certain sense. Furthermore, we establish a monotonicity inequality which reveals an implicit relationship between numerous combinatorial parameters and geometric quantities on graphons. Using this inequality, we find relations among conductance, maxcut problem, capacity, and packing radius, as well as their limiting behaviors under graph-to-graphon and graphon-to-manifold convergences; some of these relations are novel even for simple graphs and closed manifolds.

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