Abstract. We consider convex symmetric lens-shaped networks in R 2 that evolve under curve shortening flow. We show that the enclosed convex domain shrinks to a point in finite time. Furthermore, after appropriate rescaling the evolving networks converge to a self-similarly shrinking network, which we prove to be unique in an appropriate class. We also include a classification result for some self-similarly shrinking networks.

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In this paper we construct a Ricci DeTurck flow on any incomplete Riemannian manifold with bounded curvature. The central property of the flow is that it stays uniformly equivalent to the initial incomplete Riemannian metric, and in that sense preserves any given initial singularity structure. Together with the corresponding result by Shi for complete manifolds [Shi89], this gives that any (complete or incomplete) manifold of bounded curvature can be evolved by the Ricci DeTurck flow for a short time.

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