Simplified excision techniques for free discontinuity problems in several variables (Q1375918)

The author studied the free discontinuity problems. These are problems where an unknown discontinuity set can be found by solving a minimization problem. These kind of problems appear in the theory of image segmentation. The author has found applications to problems in several variables thanks to a Sobolev type theorem which ensures the Hölder continuity of certain functions out of a suitable neighbourhood of their discontinuity set.