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Main Authors: Babadjian, Jean-François, Rakovsky, Martin, Rodiac, Rémy
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10875
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author Babadjian, Jean-François
Rakovsky, Martin
Rodiac, Rémy
author_facet Babadjian, Jean-François
Rakovsky, Martin
Rodiac, Rémy
contents We consider a family $\{(u_\varepsilon, v_\varepsilon)\}_{\varepsilon>0}$ of critical points of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli functional. Assuming a uniform energy bound, the sequence $\{(u_\varepsilon, v_\varepsilon)\}_{\varepsilon>0}$ converges in $L^2(Ω)$ to a limit $(u, 1)$ as $\varepsilon \to 0$, where $u$ is in $SBV^2(Ω)$. It was previously shown that if the full Ambrosio-Tortorelli energy associated to $(u_\varepsilon,v_\varepsilon)$ converges to the Mumford-Shah energy of $u$, then the first inner variation converges as well. In particular, $u$ is a critical point of the Mumford-Shah functional in the sense of inner variations. In this work, focusing on the two-dimensional setting, we extend this result under the sole convergence of the phase-field energy to the length energy term in the Mumford-Shah functional.
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spellingShingle Critical points of the two-dimensional Ambrosio-Tortorelli functional with convergence of the phase-field energy
Babadjian, Jean-François
Rakovsky, Martin
Rodiac, Rémy
Analysis of PDEs
We consider a family $\{(u_\varepsilon, v_\varepsilon)\}_{\varepsilon>0}$ of critical points of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli functional. Assuming a uniform energy bound, the sequence $\{(u_\varepsilon, v_\varepsilon)\}_{\varepsilon>0}$ converges in $L^2(Ω)$ to a limit $(u, 1)$ as $\varepsilon \to 0$, where $u$ is in $SBV^2(Ω)$. It was previously shown that if the full Ambrosio-Tortorelli energy associated to $(u_\varepsilon,v_\varepsilon)$ converges to the Mumford-Shah energy of $u$, then the first inner variation converges as well. In particular, $u$ is a critical point of the Mumford-Shah functional in the sense of inner variations. In this work, focusing on the two-dimensional setting, we extend this result under the sole convergence of the phase-field energy to the length energy term in the Mumford-Shah functional.
title Critical points of the two-dimensional Ambrosio-Tortorelli functional with convergence of the phase-field energy
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10875