Width and mean curvature flow

DOI10.2140/GT.2008.12.2517zbMath1165.53363arXiv0705.3827OpenAlexW2963690164MaRDI QIDQ1006116

Tobias Holck Colding, William P. II. Minicozzi

Publication date: 19 March 2009

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3827

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvature flowwidthextinction timemin-maxsweepout

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Homotopy spheres, Poincaré conjecture (57R60)

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