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Publication 11-CNA-002
Motion of Elastic Thin Films by Anisotropic Surface Diffusion with Curvature Regularization Irene Fonseca Nicola Fusco Giovanni Leoni Massimiliano Morini Abstract: Short time existence, uniqueness, and regularity for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization are proved in the context of epitaxially strained two-dimensional films. This is achieved by using the H-1-gradient flow structure of the evolution law, via De Giorgi's minimizing movements. This seems to be the first short time existence result for a surface diffusion type geometric evolution equation in the presence of elasticity. Get the paper in its entirety as |