Free discontinuity problems and special functions with bounded variation

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Authors Luigi Ambrosio

Publication date 21 March 1999

zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergenceapproximationsexistencefree discontinuity problemsGSBVliquid cristalsMumford-Shah functionalregularitySBVspaces of special and generalized special functions of bounded variation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Fracture and damage (74R99)

Review text

The paper presents a survey of the current research in the field of the free discontinuity problems (f-d-p for short). According to the De Giorgi terminology by the f-d-p one means any variational problem with a competition between volume and surface energies where the second one is supported on sets which are not fixed a priori. Typical examples are provided by the theory of nematic liquid cristals and by the Mumford-Shah minimization problem: \[ \inf \{F(u,K); K=\text{ compact} \subset {\bar \Omega}, u \in C^1(\Omega \setminus K)\}, \] which can be used to solve the problems of image reconstruction. A weak formulation of such kind of problems has been proposed by E. De Giorgi and L. Ambrosio who introduced the spaces of special functions of bounded variation (roughly speaking these are functions whose distributional derivatives are bounded measures which can be splitted into bulk and surface terms). The Section 1 of the paper is devoted to the existence of weak solutions to the f-d-p in the space \(\text{SBV}(\Omega)\). Therein some compactness and lower semicontinuity theorems for the volume and surface energies are proved and a short review of other f-d-p solved in SBV spaces is provided. In Section 2 some regularity results for weak solutions of f-d-p are given. Finally, in Section 3 some computations of approximate solutions to f-d-p are presented and the \(\Gamma\)- convergence theory is used to obtain the variational convergence of minima and minimizers. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0893.00027].

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