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We discuss the waiting time effect for the evolution of a planar graph governed by its positive part of second derivative. For any smooth periodic function which contains finitely many convex pieces in one period, we show that the waiting time is continuous by using comparison arguments. Moreover, we show that the convex parts keep expanding in size in a strict manner, which answers an open question posed by Kohn and Serfaty (Commun Pure Appl Math 59:344–407, 2006) in this special case. The results on waiting time effect are also applied to the stationary problem of mean curvature type on an unbounded nonconvex domain for our study of its game-theoretic interpretation.
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Liu, Q. Waiting time effect for motion by positive second derivatives and applications. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 21, 589–620 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-013-0259-5
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