ON THE VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION OF FREE-DISCONTINUITY PROBLEMS IN THE VECTORIAL CASE

We provide a variational approximation for quasiconvex energies defined on vector valued special functions with bounded variation. We extend the Ambrosio–Tortorelli's construction to the vectorial case.

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