We consider, in an open subset of , energies depending on the perimeter of a subset (or some equivalent surface integral) and on a function which is defined only on . We compute the lower semicontinuous envelope of such energies. This relaxation has to take into account the fact that in the limit, the “holes” may collapse into a discontinuity of , whose surface will be counted twice in the relaxed energy. We discuss some situations where such energies appear, and give, as an application, a new proof of convergence for an extension of Ambrosio-Tortorelli’s approximation to the Mumford-Shah functional.
Keywords: relaxation, free discontinuity problems, $\Gamma $-convergence
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Braides, Andrea; Chambolle, Antonin; Solci, Margherita. A relaxation result for energies defined on pairs set-function and applications. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Volume 13 (2007) no. 4, pp. 717-734. doi : 10.1051/cocv:2007032. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/cocv:2007032/
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