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一个高阶Cheeger不等式

A Higher-Order Cheeger's Inequality

Shayan Oveis Gharan, Luca Trevisan

摘要:

代数图论中的一个基本事实是:无向图的连通分支数等于图的归一化邻接矩阵中特征值1的重数。特别地,图是不连通的当且仅当至少有两个特征值等于1。Cheeger不等式提供了后一个事实的“近似”版本,它指出一个图有稀疏割(它是“几乎不连通的”)当且仅当至少有两个特征值接近于一。它已被证明,一个类似的特征适用于较高的多重性,即有$k$特征值接近1,当且仅当顶点集可以划分成$k$子集,每个定义一个稀疏割。在本文中,我们解决这个猜想。我们的研究结果提供了一个理论上的聚类算法,使用顶部$k$特征向量嵌入到$\R^k$的顶点,然后应用几何考虑嵌入的理由。

英文摘要:

A basic fact in algebraic graph theory is that the number of connected components in an undirected graph is equal to the multiplicity of the eigenvalue 1 in the normalized adjacency matrix of the graph. In particular, the graph is disconnected if and only if there are at least two eigenvalues equal to 1. Cheeger's inequality provides an "approximate" version of the latter fact, and it states that a graph has a sparse cut (it is "almost disconnected") if and only if there are at least two eigenvalues that are close to one. It has been conjectured that an analogous characterization holds for higher multiplicities, that is there are $k$ eigenvalues close to 1 if and only if the vertex set can be partitioned into $k$ subsets, each defining a sparse cut. In this paper we resolve this conjecture. Our result provides a theoretical justification for clustering algorithms that use the top $k$ eigenvector to embed the vertices into $\R^k$, and then apply geometric considerations to the embedding.

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