An Introduction to Laplacian Spectral Distances and Kernels

Ingeometryprocessingandshapeanalysis,severalapplicationshavebeenaddressedthroughthepropertiesoftheLaplacianspectralkernelsanddistances,suchascommutetime,biharmonic,diffusion,andwavedistances.Withinthiscontext,thisbookisintendedtoprovideacommonbackgroundonthedefinitionandcomputationofthe