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In the continuum, close connections exist between mean curvature flow, the Allen-Cahn (AC) partial differential equation, and the Merriman-Bence-Osher (MBO) threshold dynamics scheme. Graph analogues of these processes have recently seen a rise in popularity as relaxations of NP-complete combinatorial problems, which demands deeper theoretical underpinnings of the graph processes. The aim of this paper is to introduce these graph processes in the light of their continuum counterparts, provide some background, prove the first results connecting them, illustrate these processes with examples and identify open questions for future study. We derive a graph curvature from the graph cut function, the natural graph counterpart of total variation (perimeter). This derivation and the resulting curvature definition differ from those in earlier literature, where the continuum mean curvature is simply discretized, and bears many similarities to the continuum nonlocal curvature or nonlocal means formulation. This new graph curvature is not only relevant for graph MBO dynamics, but also appears in the variational formulation of a discrete time graph mean curvature flow. We prove estimates showing that the dynamics are trivial for both MBO and AC evolutions if the parameters (the time-step and diffuse interface scale, respectively) are sufficiently small (a phenomenon known as freezing or pinning) and also that the dynamics for MBO are nontrivial if the time step is large enough. These bounds are in terms of graph quantities such as the spectrum of the graph Laplacian and the graph curvature. Adapting a Lyapunov functional for the continuum MBO scheme to graphs, we prove that the graph MBO scheme converges to a stationary state in a finite number of iterations. Variations on this scheme have recently become popular in the literature as ways to minimize (continuum) nonlocal total variation.
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Inspired by works of Casteras (Pacific J. Math., 2015), Li-Zhu (Calc. Var., 2019) and Sun-Zhu (Calc. Var., 2020), we propose a heat flow for the mean field equation on a connected finite graph $G=(V,E)$. Namely $$ left{begin{array}{lll} partial_tphi(u)=Delta u-Q+rho frac{e^u}{int_Ve^udmu}[1.5ex] u(cdot,0)=u_0, end{array}right. $$ where $Delta$ is the standard graph Laplacian, $rho$ is a real number, $Q:Vrightarrowmathbb{R}$ is a function satisfying $int_VQdmu=rho$, and $phi:mathbb{R}rightarrowmathbb{R}$ is one of certain smooth functions including $phi(s)=e^s$. We prove that for any initial data $u_0$ and any $rhoinmathbb{R}$, there exists a unique solution $u:Vtimes[0,+infty)rightarrowmathbb{R}$ of the above heat flow; moreover, $u(x,t)$ converges to some function $u_infty:Vrightarrowmathbb{R}$ uniformly in $xin V$ as $trightarrow+infty$, and $u_infty$ is a solution of the mean field equation $$Delta u_infty-Q+rhofrac{e^{u_infty}}{int_Ve^{u_infty}dmu}=0.$$ Though $G$ is a finite graph, this result is still unexpected, even in the special case $Qequiv 0$. Our approach reads as follows: the short time existence of the heat flow follows from the ODE theory; various integral estimates give its long time existence; moreover we establish a Lojasiewicz-Simon type inequality and use it to conclude the convergence of the heat flow.
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