A cheeger inequality for the graph connection laplacian

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1611-1630

  Bandeira, Afonso S ^a   Singer, Amit ^a   Spielman, Daniel A ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheeger inequality; Graph connection Laplacian; O(d) synchronization; Vector diffusion maps

Indexed keywords

CHEEGER INEQUALITIES; DIFFUSION MAPS; LAPLACIANS; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL METHODS; SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM; WORST-CASE PERFORMANCE;

LINEAR ALGEBRA; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84892418594     PISSN: 08954798     EISSN: 10957162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/120875338     Document Type: Article

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