@article{6ee113e52d9b48158039f504372064a0,
title = "Nonlinear spectral calculus and super-expanders",
abstract = "Nonlinear spectral gaps with respect to uniformly convex normed spaces are shown to satisfy a spectral calculus inequality that establishes their decay along Ces{\`a}ro averages. Nonlinear spectral gaps of graphs are also shown to behave sub-multiplicatively under zigzag products. These results yield a combinatorial construction of super-expanders, i.e., a sequence of 3-regular graphs that does not admit a coarse embedding into any uniformly convex normed space.",
author = "Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor",
note = "Funding Information: Michael Langberg was involved in early discussions on the analysis of the zigzag product. Keith Ball helped in simplifying this analysis. We thank Steven Heilman, Michel Ledoux, Mikhail Ostrovskii and Gideon Schechtman for helpful suggestions. We are also grateful to two anonymous referees for their careful reading of this paper and many helpful comments. An extended abstract announcing parts of this work, and titled “Towards a calculus for nonlinear spectral gaps”, appeared in Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2010). M. M. was partially supported by ISF grants 221/07 and 93/11, BSF grants 2006009 and 2010021, and a gift from Cisco Research Center. Part of this work was completed while M.M. was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ, USA. A.N. was partially supported by NSF grant CCF-0832795, BSF grants 2006009 and 2010021, the Packard Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Part of this work was completed while A.N. was visiting Universit{\'e} Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.",
year = "2014",
month = may,
doi = "10.1007/s10240-013-0053-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "119",
pages = "1--95",
journal = "Publications Mathematiques de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques",
issn = "0073-8301",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "1",
}