- The theory of continuous graphs also known as graphons heavily relies on functional analysis of the Lebesgue space as one has to deal with certain limits of discrete objects with respect to the norm of .
- There is a characterisation of super-reflexive Banach space via impossibility of metric embedding of certain graphs (diamond graphs) into Banach spaces. See papers by W.B. Johnson, A. Naor, M. Ostrovskii or G. Schechtman. For example: W. B. Johnson, G. Schechtman, Diamond graphs and super-reflexivity, J. Topol. Anal., 1 (2009), 2, 177–189.
- There is a huge subfield of the theory operator algebras devoted to encoding graphs by certain C*-algebras (the so-called graph algebras). For example they generalise the Cuntz algebras which in a sense are building blocks of purely infinite algebras that are classifiable in certain sense. See these introductory notes.
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