TY - JOUR A1 - Keller, Matthias A1 - Münch, Florentin A1 - Pogorzelski, Felix T1 - Geometry and spectrum of rapidly branching graphs JF - Mathematische Nachrichten N2 - We study graphs whose vertex degree tends to infinity and which are, therefore, called rapidly branching. We prove spectral estimates, discreteness of spectrum, first order eigenvalue and Weyl asymptotics solely in terms of the vertex degree growth. The underlying techniques are estimates on the isoperimetric constant. Furthermore, we give lower volume growth bounds and we provide a new criterion for stochastic incompleteness. (C) 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim KW - Graph Laplacians KW - discrete spectrum KW - eigenvalue asymptotics KW - isoperimetric estimates KW - stochastic completeness Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.201400349 SN - 0025-584X SN - 1522-2616 VL - 289 SP - 1636 EP - 1647 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER -