Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

G. Dal Maso - R. Toader

On a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional

created on 25 Oct 2004
modified by dalmaso on 23 Sep 2008

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Inserted: 25 oct 2004
Last Updated: 23 sep 2008

Journal: NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl.
Volume: 13
Pages: 713-734
Year: 2007

Abstract:

In this paper we introduce a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional, and provide an explicit formula in the case of smooth cracks. We show that the slope is not lower semicontinuous and study the corresponding relaxed functional.


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