The calibration method for free discontinuity problems (Q4408041)

The author presents the calibration method for the functional \[ F(u)=\int _{\Omega \cap S_u}f(x,u(x),Du(x))\,dx +\int _{S_u}\phi (x,u^-(x),u^+(x),\nu _u(x))\,d{\mathcal H}^{n-1}(x), \] where \(u\in \text{SBV}(\Omega)\), \(f\) and \(\psi\) are Borel functions not necessarily convex in the last variable and \(\Omega\) is an open bounded set with Lipschitz boundary. The given functional was proposed by De~Giorgi in the study of free discontinuity problems and is a generalization of the Mumford-Shah functional. Existence of a calibration for a given function \(u\in \text{SBV}(\Omega)\) gives a sufficient condiition for \(u\) to be a minimizer of \(F\). The paper does not contain any proof (the reader is referred to a later paper), but in the last section a wide class of examples and applications is furnished. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0972.00031].