Spectral Contraction of Boundary-Weighted Filters on delta-Hyperbolic Graphs

Hierarchical graphs often exhibit tree-like branching patterns, a structural property that challenges the design of traditional graph filters. We introduce a boundary-weighted operator that rescales each edge according to how far its endpoints drift toward the graph's Gromov boundary. Using Busemann functions on delta-hyperbolic networks, we prove a closed-form upper bound on the operator's spectral norm: every signal loses a curvature-controlled fraction of its energy at each pass. The result delivers a parameter-free, lightweight filter whose stability follows directly from geometric first principles, offering a new analytic tool for graph signal processing on data with dense or hidden hierarchical structure.

@article{anh2025_2506.15464,
  title={ Spectral Contraction of Boundary-Weighted Filters on delta-Hyperbolic Graphs },
  author={ Le Vu Anh and Mehmet Dik and Nguyen Viet Anh },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.15464},
  year={ 2025 }
}