%0 Journal Article %A López Velázquez, Juan José %T On the dynamics of the characteristic curves for the LSW model %D 2006 %@ 1072-6691 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49672 %X This paper describes in a rigorous manner how the dynamics of the characteristic curves for the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner (LSW) model of coarsening transforms a class of noncompactly supported initial data in functions that behave in a self-similar manner for long times. %~