The nature of singularities in mean curvature flow of mean-convex sets

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 123-138

  White, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean convex; Mean curvature flow; Singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037253407     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-02-00406-X     Document Type: Article

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