Motion of Level Sets by Mean Curvature. II
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- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- Vol. 330 (1) , 321-332
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2154167
Abstract
We give a new proof of short time existence for the classical motion by mean curvature of a smooth hypersurface. Our method consists in studying a fully nonlinear uniformly parabolic equation satisfied by the signed distance function to the surfaceKeywords
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