Variational analysis of a mean curvature flow action functional

DOI10.1007/s00526-014-0726-9zbMath1315.49022arXiv1304.2012OpenAlexW2963762035MaRDI QIDQ2017812

Matthias Röger, Annibale Magni

Publication date: 23 March 2015

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2012

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvature flowlower semicontinuitycompactnesssymmetriesEuler-Lagrange equationaction minimization problemreduced Allen-Cahn action functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Boundary value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G30) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30)

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