Geometric evolution problems, distance function and viscosity solutions
barrier approachlevel set approachmean curvature flowsemilinear parabolic equationsviscosity solutions
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Abstract parabolic equations (35K90) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45)
Based on a series of lectures, this is a collection of self-contained notes devoted to the study of weak solutions of geometric evolution equations, in particular the mean curvature flow. There are essentially two approaches leading to the definition of weak solutions. One, originating with Brakke, is via geometric measure theory, another one known as the ``level-set approach has been developed independently, first in codimension \(1\), by Chen, Giga \& Goto and Evans \& Spruck. The author focuses on the set theoretic approach in codimension \(1\) and higher, while he is presenting in parallel the properties of the distance function. The result is a systematic treatment of the subject which starts with the basic definitions and preliminary results describing the relevant techniques involved. It continues with the consistency of the level set approach with classical solutions, and the level set approach is compared with the barrier approach of De Giorgi. Finally, the level set approach in codimension \(1\) is characterized à la Soner by the properties of the signed distance function from it, and it is related to the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the reaction-diffusion equation. The rigorous presentation, alternated with the motivation for using these techniques, makes the paper an ideal tool for somebody even remotely interested in this subject. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0932.00045].
- Geometric restrictions for the existence of viscosity solutions
- Barriers for a class of geometric evolution problems
- Uniqueness of motion by mean curvature perturbed by stochastic noise.
- Level set methods based on distance function
- A metric-based approach to multiphase mean curvature flows with mobilities
- Multiphase mean curvature flows with high mobility contrasts: a phase-field approach, with applications to nanowires
- Regularization of discrete contour by Willmore energy
- A stability property for the generalized mean curvature flow equation
- Convergence of nonlocal geometric flows to anisotropic mean curvature motion
- On nonlocal minimal graphs
- Learning phase field mean curvature flows with neural networks
- A cell-cell repulsion model on a hyperbolic Keller-Segel equation
- A general regularity theory for weak mean curvature flow
- On the relaxed area of the graph of discontinuous maps from the plane to the plane taking three values with no symmetry assumptions
- Bernoulli's problem for the infinity-Laplacian near a set with positive reach
- Geometric evolution equations in critical dimensions
- Boundary regularity of reachable sets of control systems
- Epi-Lipschitzian reachable sets of differential inclusions
- Existence and regularity of mean curvature flow with transport term in higher dimensions
- On a conjecture of De Giorgi about the phase-field approximation of the Willmore functional
- Accessibility constraints in structural optimization via distance functions
- On the approximation of front propagation problems with nonlocal terms
- On the characterization of some classes of proximally smooth sets
- Geodesic Evolution Laws—A Level-Set Approach
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1189273 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1187695 (Why is no real title available?)
- Oriented Distance Function and Its Evolution Equation for Initial Sets with Thin Boundary
- Phase-field approximations of the Willmore functional and flow
- Approximation of surface diffusion flow: a second-order variational Cahn-Hilliard model with degenerate mobilities
- A variational formulation for computing shape derivatives of geometric constraints along rays
- Existence and uniqueness for anisotropic and crystalline mean curvature flows
- Phase-field modelling and computing for a large number of phases
- The Extrinsic Geometry of Dynamical Systems Tracking Nonlinear Matrix Projections
- A geometric approach to dynamical model order reduction
- A multiphase Cahn–Hilliard system with mobilities and the numerical simulation of dewetting
- Motion of level sets by inverse anisotropic mean curvature
- Generation and Motion of Interfaces in a Mass-Conserving Reaction-Diffusion System
- Approximation of multiphase mean curvature flows with arbitrary nonnegative mobilities
- Farthest distance function to strongly convex sets
- The anisotropic Gaussian isoperimetric inequality and Ehrhard symmetrization
- Existence results for Cahn-Hilliard-type systems driven by nonlocal integrodifferential operators with singular kernels
- Dispersal towards food: the singular limit of an Allen-Cahn equation
- -limsup estimate for a nonlocal approximation of the Willmore functional
- On the evolution problem for the non-parametric prescribed mean curvature equation
- Body-fitted tracking within a surface via a level set based mesh evolution method
- A level-set method for a mean curvature flow with a prescribed boundary
- A penalized Allen-Cahn equation for the mean curvature flow of thin structures
- Generalized motion of level sets by functions of their curvatures on Riemannian manifolds
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