Cahn-Hilliard equation associated with hypergraph

Abstract

A hypergraph Laplacian was introduced to investigate the structure of networks written as hypergraphs. It was shown that the behavior of solutions to an evolution equation associated with the hypergraph Laplacian quite resembles that of solutions to the classical heat equation. Hence by replacing the Laplacian in PDEs with the hypergraph Laplacian, we might be able to introduce various diffusion models on hypergraphs (discrete domains), whose behavior of solution is similar to PDEs. In this paper, we consider a system of equations obtained by replacing the Laplacian in the original Cahn--Hilliard equation with the hypergraph Laplacian. Due to the nonlinearity and multivaluedness of the hypergraph Laplacian, it is difficult to apply methods for the original Cahn--Hilliard equation to our problem. To cope with these difficulty, we shall introduce a new proof by using properties of the hypergraph Laplacian in this paper.