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We discuss evolutions of solids driven by boundary curvatures and crystal growth with Gibbs-Thomson curvature effects. Geometric measure theoretic techniques apply both to smooth elliptic surface energies and to non-differentiable crystalline surface energies.
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Almgren, F. (1996). Questions and Answers About Geometric Evolution Processes and Crystal Growth. In: Gelfand, I.M., Lepowsky, J., Smirnov, M.M. (eds) The Gelfand Mathematical Seminars, 1993–1995. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4082-2_1
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