Equilibrium solutions to generalized motion by mean curvature (Q1127888)

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    Equilibrium solutions to generalized motion by mean curvature (English)
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    10 September 1998
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    We consider viscosity equilibria to the mean curvature level set flow with a Dirichlet condition. The main result shows that almost every level set of an equilibrium solution is analytic off of a singular set of Hausdorff dimension at most \(n-8\) and that these level sets are stationary and stable with respect to the area functional. A key tool developed is a maximum principle for solutions to obstacle problems where the obstacle consists of (viscosity) minimal surfaces. Convergence to equilibrium as \(t\to\infty\) is also established for the associated initial-boundary value problem.
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    level set flow
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    viscosity solutions
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    stable varifolds
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    minimal surfaces
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    obstacle problems
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