Laplacian Experiments/Eigenmatrices
From Worden
Visualizing the eigenmatrices of the Laplacianoid operator, in much the same way that we previously made pictures of the eigenvectors of a graph's Laplacian.
For example the first symmetric one:
and the third symmetric one:
(Here's the first asymmetric one)
Here's the picture of all of them - it's a very large image, with all 100 of the graph pictures in rows and columns. The eigenvector pictures are included as row and column headers to help make sense out of them.
The relation between eigenmatrices of and eigenvectors of is that if the latter are called for , then the former are of the form for all . Each is a vector containing one number for each vertex of the graph, so we draw it as colors on the vertices on a picture of the graph, grey to black for positive numbers and pink to red for negative. Each eigenmatrix, on the other hand, is a matrix of numbers, one for each possible edge of the graph, including loops from a vertex to itself, so we visualize it by coloring the graph's edges in the same color scheme. Large positive or negative numbers (larger than 1) are also drawn with thicker arrows than the rest.
Note: there are other symmetric eigenmatrices, constructed by taking for any and . To do: draw them as well.


