Geometry & Topology Volume 12, issue 5 (2008)

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Width and mean curvature flow

Tobias H Colding and William P Minicozzi II

Geometry & Topology 12 (2008) 2517–2535

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2008.12.2517

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