Uniqueness and existence of viscosity solutions of generalized mean curvature flow equations

DOI10.3792/pjaa.65.207zbMath0735.35082OpenAlexW2599473381MaRDI QIDQ5916367

Yun-Gang Chen, Shun'ichi Goto, Yoshikazu Giga

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3792/pjaa.65.207

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvature flowuniquenessCauchy problemglobal continuous viscosity solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05)

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