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Some remarks about the area-preserving convex curve flow in the plane

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Using Picard’s theorem and the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem to reinvestigate the area-preserving convex curve flow in the plane which is considered as a coupled system and thus different from the setting handled by Gage.

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Ling, P. Some remarks about the area-preserving convex curve flow in the plane. Appl. Math. Chin. Univ. 19, 417–428 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11766-004-0008-y

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