Conformal curvature flows: From phase transitions to active vision

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-301

  Kichenassamy, Satyanad ^a,b   Kumar, Arun ^a,b   Olver, Peter ^a,b   Tannenbaum, Allen ^a,b   Yezzi, Anthony ^a,b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 0030488811     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00379537     Document Type: Article

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