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Lectures on Curvature Flow of Networks

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We present a collection of results on the evolution by curvature of networks of planar curves. We discuss in particular the existence of a solution and the analysis of singularities.

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Mantegazza, C., Novaga, M., Pluda, A. (2019). Lectures on Curvature Flow of Networks. In: Dipierro, S. (eds) Contemporary Research in Elliptic PDEs and Related Topics. Springer INdAM Series, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18921-1_9

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