On 2013-04-17, Tom Boothby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dima,
>
> Rows correspond to vertices and columns correspond to edges.  This
> matrix represents an undirected triangle with a double edge.  I don't
> understand why the graph __init__ requires a +1 and a -1 in each
> column -- that describes a directed incidence matrix, and has no place
> in undirected graphs.
Yes it does, in a way. If you want to construct the Laplacian matrix L of the
graph from the incidence matrix E just by using matrix multiplication, 
you need to pick up an orientation for each edge, i.e. assigning +1 to
one end, and -1 to the other. Then, bingo, you have L=E.T*E

Dima


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