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Variational models for epitaxial growth

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Free Discontinuity Problems

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These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures that I gave at the ERC School on Free Discontinuity Problems, at the De Giorgi Center, Pisa, Italy, July 7–July 11, 2014. The school was organized by Aldo Pratelli and Nicola Fusco. Although the basic structure of the lecture notes follows the one given at the school, I am adding here more material and a lot of the details that I skipped in class.

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Leoni, G. (2016). Variational models for epitaxial growth. In: Fusco, N., Pratelli, A. (eds) Free Discontinuity Problems. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore, vol 19. Edizioni della Normale, Pisa. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-7642-593-6_2

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