Some Remarks on the Analyticity of Minimizers of
Free Discontinuity Problems

Giovanni Leoni
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Massimiliano Morini
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Abstract: In this paper we give a partial answer to a conjecture of De Giorgi, namely we prove that in dimension two the regular part of the discontinuity set of a local minimizer of the homogeneous Mumford-Shah functional is analytic with the excpetion of at most a countable number of isolated points.

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