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In many problems arising from Mathematical Physics and from Applied Mathematics the objects involved are surfaces, or more generally lower dimensional sets. Some nowadays well-known examples that could be quoted in this respect as model cases are the phase transitions problem, the Mumford and Shah image segmentation problem in computer vision, and the geometric evolution problems such as for instance the motion by mean curvature.
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Ambrosio, L., Dancer, N., Buttazzo, G., Marino, A., Murthy, M.K.V. (2000). Introduction to Part I. In: Buttazzo, G., Marino, A., Murthy, M.K.V. (eds) Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57186-2_1
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