24 research outputs found
Quantizing graphs, one way or two?
Quantum graphs were introduced to model free electrons in organic molecules
using a self-adjoint Hamiltonian on a network of intervals. A second graph
quantization describes wave propagation on a graph by specifying scattering
matrices at the vertices. A question that is frequently raised is the extent to
which these models are the same or complimentary. In particular, are all energy
independent unitary vertex scattering matrices associated with a self-adjoint
Hamiltonian? Here we review results related to this issue. In addition, we
observe that a self-adjoint Dirac operator with four component spinors produces
a secular equation for the graph spectrum that matches the secular equation
associated with wave propagation on the graph when the Dirac operator describes
particles with zero mass and the vertex conditions do not allow spin rotation
at the vertices.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Spectra of regular quantum graphs
We consider a class of simple quasi one-dimensional classically
non-integrable systems which capture the essence of the periodic orbit
structure of general hyperbolic nonintegrable dynamical systems. Their behavior
is simple enough to allow a detailed investigation of both classical and
quantum regimes. Despite their classical chaoticity, these systems exhibit a
``nonintegrable analog'' of the Einstein-Brillouin-Keller quantization formula
which provides their spectra explicitly, state by state, by means of convergent
periodic orbit expansions.Comment: 32 pages, 10 figure
Designing labeled graph classifiers by exploiting the R\'enyi entropy of the dissimilarity representation
Representing patterns as labeled graphs is becoming increasingly common in
the broad field of computational intelligence. Accordingly, a wide repertoire
of pattern recognition tools, such as classifiers and knowledge discovery
procedures, are nowadays available and tested for various datasets of labeled
graphs. However, the design of effective learning procedures operating in the
space of labeled graphs is still a challenging problem, especially from the
computational complexity viewpoint. In this paper, we present a major
improvement of a general-purpose classifier for graphs, which is conceived on
an interplay between dissimilarity representation, clustering,
information-theoretic techniques, and evolutionary optimization algorithms. The
improvement focuses on a specific key subroutine devised to compress the input
data. We prove different theorems which are fundamental to the setting of the
parameters controlling such a compression operation. We demonstrate the
effectiveness of the resulting classifier by benchmarking the developed
variants on well-known datasets of labeled graphs, considering as distinct
performance indicators the classification accuracy, computing time, and
parsimony in terms of structural complexity of the synthesized classification
models. The results show state-of-the-art standards in terms of test set
accuracy and a considerable speed-up for what concerns the computing time.Comment: Revised versio