Reading a graphon on another carrier #
A graphon on (Ω, μ) may be read on any other probability space through a measurable map
f : Ω' → Ω, by evaluating it at the images of both arguments:
W.comap f hf μ' x y = W (f x) (f y). Symmetry, measurability and the [0, 1] range all survive,
so the result is again a graphon.
This is SymmKernel.comap with the range constraint carried along, and it is the object that makes
the cross-carrier theory run: the two graphons compared by the cut distance live on different
spaces, and a coupling π of their carriers turns both into graphons on (Ω₁ × Ω₂, π) — the
pullbacks along the two coordinate projections, whose difference is
TauCeti.DenseGraphLimits.overlayDiff. Nothing here needs f to be measure preserving; that
hypothesis enters only where an integral is transported, as in
TauCeti.DenseGraphLimits.homDensity_comap.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.DenseGraphLimits.Graphon.comap— the pullback of a graphon along a measurable map.
Main results #
Graphon.comap_apply— the eliminatorW.comap f hf μ' x y = W (f x) (f y);Graphon.toSymmKernel_comap— the pullback of a graphon is the pullback of its kernel, which is how the cut norm and the kernel algebra see it;Graphon.comap_id,Graphon.comap_comap,Graphon.comap_const— functoriality and the constant graphon.
References #
- Roadmap:
TauCetiRoadmap/DenseGraphLimits/README.md, Layer 1 — the basic API of theGraphonobject, and the cross-carrier reading of two graphons through a coupling that the coupling-primarycutDistrests on. - S. Janson, Graphons, cut norm and distance, couplings and rearrangements, NYJM Monographs 4 (2013), §6.
The pullback of a graphon along a measurable map f : Ω' → Ω, acting on both arguments:
W.comap f hf μ' x y = W (f x) (f y).
The underlying kernel is SymmKernel.comap, so symmetry, measurability and boundedness are
inherited from there; the [0, 1] range is inherited pointwise. As for kernels, no hypothesis on
either measure is needed — μ' only has to be a probability measure for the result to be a
graphon at all.
The argument order follows SymmKernel.comap: the map first, then its measurability, then the
carrier measure of the result, which the data does not determine.
Instances For
Pulling back a graphon evaluates it after applying the map to both arguments.
The underlying kernel of a pulled-back graphon is the pullback of its kernel. This is the form
the cut norm and the kernel algebra consume, so it is the bridge between this file and
TauCeti.Combinatorics.DenseGraphLimits.Kernel.Pullback.
Pulling back along the identity is the identity.
Pullbacks compose contravariantly.
The constant graphon pulls back to the constant graphon with the same parameter.