Circular Planar Resistor Networks with Nonlinear and Signed Conductors

Details Circular Planar Resistor Networks with Nonlinear and Signed Conductors Circular Planar Resistor Networks with Nonlinear and Signed Conductors

2012-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/1203.4045v1

Mathematics

Combinatorics

52 pages, 36 figures

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We consider the inverse boundary value problem in the case of discrete electrical networks containing nonlinear (non-ohmic) resistors. Generalizing work of Curtis, Ingerman, Morrow, Colin de Verdiere, Gitler, and Vertigan, we characterize the circular planar graphs for which the inverse boundary value problem has a solution in this generalized non-linear setting. The answer is the same as in the linear setting. Our method of proof never requires that the resistors behave in a continuous or monotone fashion; this allows us to recover signed conductances in many cases. We apply this to the problem of recovery in graphs that are not circular planar. We also use our results to make a frivolous knot-theoretic statement, and to slightly generalize a fact proved by Lam and Pylyavskyy about factorization schemes in their electrical linear group.

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