Path, or rather the crack path, is in our view a byproduct of the time-continuous evolution. The weak variational evolution automatically delivers a crack path Г(t) for the time interval of study [0,T]. Since the only available existence result (Theorem 5.5) comes from the consideration of a global minimality criterion, together with a Griffith type surface energy, it only makes sense to discuss the path in that setting. This is the goal of this section.
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(2008). Path. In: The Variational Approach to Fracture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6395-4_6
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