Dirichlet Eigenvalue Approximation on Manifolds with Cylindrical Boundary

Abstract

We prove that the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold with cylindrical boundary can be approximated by the spectrum of truncated graph Laplacians constructed from $(\varepsilon,\rho)$-proximity graphs on the manifold. The approximation is uniform over a class $\mathcal{M}$ of manifolds, characterized by bounds on Ricci curvature, a lower bound on the injectivity radius, and an upper bound on the diameter. We show that the $k$-th eigenvalue of the truncated graph Laplacian lies between the $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalues of truncated domains of the manifold. As the parameters $\varepsilon$ and $\rho$ and the ratio $\frac{\varepsilon}{\rho}$ tend to zero, these estimates yield convergence of the eigenvalues of the truncated graph Laplacian to the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator.