Convexified Gauss Curvature flow of Sets: A Stochastic Approximation

We construct a discrete stochastic approximation of a convexified Gauss curvature flow of boundaries of bounded open sets in an anisotropic external field. We also show that a weak solution to the PDE which describes the motion of a bounded open set is unique and is a viscosity solution of it.

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