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Some Aspects of Mean Curvature Flow in Presence of Nonsmooth Anisotropies

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European Congress of Mathematics

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We discuss some aspects of motion by mean curvature of hypersur­faces in presence of nonsmooth anisotropies. We include the crystalline case in three dimensions.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via della Ricerca Scientifica, Roma, I-00133, Italy

    Giovanni Bellettini

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  1. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Carles Casacuberta  & Joan Verdera  & 

  2. Departament d’Algebra i Geometria Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007, Barcelona, Spain

    Rosa Maria Miró-Roig

  3. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Sebastià Xambó-Descamps

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Bellettini, G. (2001). Some Aspects of Mean Curvature Flow in Presence of Nonsmooth Anisotropies. In: Casacuberta, C., Miró-Roig, R.M., Verdera, J., Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 202. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8266-8_20

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