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A Weighted Discretization of Riemannian Manifolds with Lower Ricci Bounds

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 15 references
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Abstract

Let $(M,g)$ be a connected, compact, $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with $\operatorname{Ric}(M,g)\geq-(n-1)\kappa g$. We introduce a weighted combinatorial Laplacian on $\varepsilon$-discretizations of $M$ and prove a spectral comparison theorem between the weighted graph Laplacian and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. More precisely, the eigenvalues of the two operators are uniformly comparable with constants depending only on $n,\kappa,\varepsilon$, independently of the injectivity radius. As an application, we prove spectral stability under measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. We also recover the Schoen-Wolpert-Yau inequality using the weighted discretization on families of pinching genus-$2$ hyperbolic surfaces.

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