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A coarea-type formula for the relaxation of a generalized elastica functional
Simon Masnou ( ) 1, Giacomo Nardi 2
(2011-12-06)

We consider in R^2 the generalized elastica functional defined, for smooth functions, as the p-elastica energies of the level lines integrated over all levels. Extending the functional to L1, we study its L1-lower semicontinuous envelope and we prove that, for any u in BV, the envelope at u can be represented by a coarea-type formula involving suitable collections of W2,p curves that cover the essential boundaries of the level sets of u.
1:  Institut Camille Jordan (ICJ)
CNRS : UMR5208 – Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I – Ecole Centrale de Lyon – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Lyon
2:  Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL)
CNRS : UMR7598 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Paris VI
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Mathematics/Optimization and Control
elastica – curvature – relaxation – BV
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