Measure-geometric Laplacians for discrete distributions

Abstract

In 2002 Freiberg and Z\"ahle introduced and developed a harmonic calculus for measure-geometric Laplacians associated to continuous distributions. We show their theory can be extended to encompass distributions with finite support and give a matrix representation for the resulting operators. In the case of a uniform discrete distribution we make use of this matrix representation to explicitly determine the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of the associated Laplacian.