Nonlocal Approximation of Nonisotropic Free-Discontinuity Problems

We prove that a class of free-discontinuity problems with nonisotropic bulk and surface energy densities is approximated, in the sense of $\Gamma$-convergence, by suitable families of nonlocal integral functionals. Some connections with the Wulff set are also pointed out.

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