A heat flow for the mean field equation on a finite graph

Yong Lin Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China Yunyan Yang Department of Mathematics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, People’s Republic of China

Analysis of PDEs Combinatorics mathscidoc:2207.03008

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 60, (206), 2021.8
Inspired by works of Castéras (Pac J Math 276:321–345, 2015), Li and Zhu (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 58:1–18, 2019), Sun and Zhu (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 60:1–26, 2021), we propose a heat flow for the mean field equation on a connected finite graph G=(V,E). Namely ∂_tϕ(u)=Δu−Q+ρ\frac{e^u}{∫_V e^u dμ} u(⋅,0)=u_0, where Δ is the standard graph Laplacian, ρ is a real number, Q:V→R is a function satisfying ∫_V Qdμ=ρ, and ϕ:R→R is one of certain smooth functions including ϕ(s)=es. We prove that for any initial data u_0 and any ρ∈R, there exists a unique solution u:V×[0,+∞)→R of the above heat flow; moreover, u(x, t) converges to some function u_∞:V→R uniformly in x∈V as t→+∞, and u_∞ is a solution of the mean field equation Δu_∞−Q+ρ\frac{e^{u_∞}}{∫_V e^{u_∞}dμ}=0. Though G is a finite graph, this result is still unexpected, even in the special case Q≡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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@inproceedings{yong2021a,
  title={A heat flow for the mean field equation on a finite graph},
  author={Yong Lin, and Yunyan Yang},
  url={http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20220707154539076837569},
  booktitle={Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations},
  volume={60},
  number={206},
  year={2021},
}
Yong Lin, and Yunyan Yang. A heat flow for the mean field equation on a finite graph. 2021. Vol. 60. In Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20220707154539076837569.
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