Abstract
In this paper we address anisotropic and inhomogeneous mean curvature flows with forcing and mobility, and show that the minimizing movements scheme converges to level set/viscosity solutions and to distributional solutions à la Luckhaus–Sturzenhecker to such flows, the latter result holding in low dimension and conditionally to the convergence of the energies. By doing so we generalize recent works concerning the evolution by mean curvature by removing the hypothesis of translation invariance, which in the classical theory allows one to simplify many arguments.
Funding statement: Daniele De Gennaro has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 94532.
Acknowledgements
The authors want to thank the referees for the careful reading of the manuscript and their comments, which helped improve the paper.
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- Another proof of the existence of homothetic solitons of the inverse mean curvature flow
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