Scaled Gromov hyperbolic graphs

  • Authors:
  • Edmond Jonckheere;Poonsuk Lohsoonthorn;Francis Bonahon

  • Affiliations:
  • Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2563;Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2563;Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2532

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Graph Theory
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this article, the δ-hyperbolic concept, originally developed for infinite graphs, is adapted to very large but finite graphs. Such graphs can indeed exhibit properties typical of negatively curved spaces, yet the traditional δ-hyperbolic concept, which requires existence of an upper bound on the fatness δ of the geodesic triangles, is unable to capture those properties, as any finite graph has finite δ. Here the idea is to scale δ relative to the diameter of the geodesic triangles and use the Cartan–Alexandrov–Toponogov (CAT) theory to derive the thresholding value of δdiam below which the geometry has negative curvature properties. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 57: 157–180, 2008