拉普拉斯算子(Laplace Operator)
拉普拉斯算子(Laplace Operator)为标量算子(a scalar operator):两个梯度向量算子(gradient vector operator)的内积(dot product,inner product)
△ = ▽ ⋅ ▽ = ▽ 2 = [ ∂ ∂ x 1 ⋯ ∂ ∂ x N ] [ ∂ ∂ x 1 ⋮ ∂ ∂ x N ] = ∑ n = 1 N ∂ 2 ∂ x n 2 \bigtriangleup = \bigtriangledown \cdot \bigtriangledown = \bigtriangledown^{2} = \begin{bmatrix} \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{1}} & \cdots & \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{N}} \end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{1}} \\ \vdots \\ \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{N}} \end{bmatrix} = \sum_{n = 1}^{N} \frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial x_{n}^{2}} △=▽⋅▽=▽2=[∂x1∂⋯∂xN∂]⎣⎢⎡∂x1∂⋮∂xN∂⎦⎥⎤=n=1∑N