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On the mean curvature flow of grain boundaries

Differential Geometry 2018-09-06 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Suppose that Γ0Rn+1\Gamma_0\subset\mathbb R^{n+1} is a closed countably nn-rectifiable set whose complement Rn+1Γ0\mathbb R^{n+1}\setminus \Gamma_0 consists of more than one connected component. Assume that the nn-dimensional Hausdorff measure of Γ0\Gamma_0 is finite or grows at most exponentially near infinity. Under these assumptions, we prove a global-in-time existence of mean curvature flow in the sense of Brakke starting from Γ0\Gamma_0. There exists a finite family of open sets which move continuously with respect to the Lebesgue measure, and whose boundaries coincide with the space-time support of the mean curvature flow.

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@article{arxiv.1511.02572,
  title  = {On the mean curvature flow of grain boundaries},
  author = {Lami Kim and Yoshihiro Tonegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02572},
  year   = {2018}
}

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64 pages, 6 figures