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I am grateful to the anonymous referee for his or her careful reading of the original manuscript of this paper, proposing some corrections and giving me some invaluable comments. I also would like to thank Ke Shi and Yanlong Zhang for useful discussions relating to this paper.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 11671298) and the Science Research Project of Shanghai (No. 16ZR1439200).
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Fang, J. Evolving convex curves to constant k-order width ones by a perimeter-preserving flow. manuscripta math. 157, 247–256 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-017-0977-9
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