TITLE: Evolving curves by Alexander Polden
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: I am writing a piece on curve shortening flow and lots of my sources have referenced Alexander Polden's honours thesis 'Evolving Curves' from the Australian National University. I have tried to find this paper to no avail, even through ANU's thesis catalogue here which returns nothing. I was wondering whether anyone could provide me access to this paper (I don't know if there are any copyright issues with such theses) - I would very much like to read it and most likely cite it. Thanks.

REPLY [6 votes]: Not exactly what you are seeking, but apparently a 21-page piece of it. In the paper by Gerhard Huisken and Alexander Polden, "Geometric evolution equations for hypersurfaces." Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. 45-84, they say:



That last section is about 21 pages long.

PDF download: Huisken-Polden paper.
Springer link to collection: Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems.