Graph‐like spaces approximated by discrete graphs and applications

Olaf Post and Jan Simmer

Mathematische Nachrichten, 2021, vol. 294, issue 11, 2237-2278

Abstract: We define a distance between energy forms on a graph‐like metric measure space and on a suitable discrete weighted graph using the concept of quasi‐unitary equivalence. We apply this result to metric graphs, graph‐like manifolds (e.g. a small neighbourhood of an embedded metric graph) or pcf self‐similar fractals as metric measure spaces with energy forms associated with canonical Laplacians, e.g., the Kirchhoff Laplacian on a metric graph resp. the (Neumann) Laplacian on a manifold (with boundary), and express the distance of the associated energy forms in terms of geometric quantities. In particular, we show that there is a sequence of domains converging to a pcf self‐similar fractal such that the corresponding (Neumann) energy forms converge to the fractal energy form. As a consequence, the spectra and suitable functions of the associated Laplacians converge, the latter in operator norm.

Date: 2021
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