@Article{ bracicnit07, author = { Brandolini, Barbara and Cicalese, Marco and Nitsch, Carlo and Trombetti, Cristina }, title = { A sharp estimate of the extinction time for the mean-curvature flow }, journal = { Appl. Math. Lett. }, year = { 2007 }, volume = { 20 }, number = { 5 }, pages = { 551-557 }, URL = { http://cvgmt.sns.it/paper/187/ }, note = { cvgmt preprint} }