Laplacian Matrix - Random Walk Normalized Laplacian

The random walk normalized Laplacian is defined as

where A is the adjacency matrix and D is the degree matrix. Since the degree matrix D is diagonal, its inverse is simply defined as a diagonal matrix, having diagonal entries which are the reciprocals of the corresponding positive diagonal entries of D.

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