Exponential convergence for a convexifying equation and a non-autonomous gradient ow for global minimization

Abstract : We consider an evolution equation similar to that introduced by Vese in [10] and whose solution converges in large time to the convex envelope of the initial datum. We give a stochastic control representation for the solution from which we deduce, under quite general assumptions that the convergence in the Lipschitz norm is in fact exponential in time. We then introduce a non-autonomous gradient flow and prove that its trajectories all converge to minimizers of the convex envelope.