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We deal with decay and boundedness properties of radial functions belonging to Besov and Lizorkin-Triebel spaces. In detail we investigate the surprising interplay of regularity and decay. Our tools are atomic decompositions in combination…
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The vertex model is widely used to describe the dynamics of epithelial tissues, because of its simplicity and versatility and the direct inclusion of biophysical parameters. Here, it is shown that quite generally, when cells modify their…
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