Lower semicontinuity and relaxation for free discontinuity functionals with non-standard growth (Q6183970)

This paper is concerned with integral representation, lower semicontinuity and relaxation of free discontinuity functionals under non-standard growth of the bulk energy. The authors base their analysis on an adaptation of the blow-up [\textit{L. Ambrosio}, Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 23, No. 3, 405--425 (1994; Zbl 0817.49017)] and of the global method for relaxation [\textit{G. Bouchitté} et al., Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 165, No. 3, 187--242 (2002; Zbl 1028.49009)] to the setting of generalized special function of bounded variation with Orlicz growth. Key tools developed in this paper are an integral representation result and a Poincaré inequality under non-standard growth.